I Went Back Into The House Because I’d Forgotten My Reading Glasses On The Dining Room Table, And In The Quiet Of The Hallway I Heard My Only Son Laughing On The Phone About How “She’ll Faint When She Sees The Empty Account”
And That’s How I Learned He’d Just Moved All $280,000 Of My Life Savings Into His Wife’s Account To Buy A Beach House. The Next Morning, With My Hands Still Shaking, I Walked Into The Bank And Told The Manager My Own Child Had Robbed Me — And That One Sentence Lit The Fuse On A Criminal Case I Never Imagined I’d Be The One To Start.
My name is Mary Martinez. I’m seventy years old, a widow living in a modest two-bedroom house in Malden, just outside Boston. The kind of neighborhood where everyone knows your name, where the pharmacist still remembers what medications you take, where the seasons change with deliberate beauty—fierce New England winters giving way to springs so lovely they make you forget you ever complained about the cold.
For forty years, my husband Arthur and I ran Martinez Family Pharmacy on Main Street. It was a small place with a flickering neon sign that Arthur refused to replace because he said it had “character,” with creaky wooden floors and shelves lined with everything from prescription medications to birthday cards to that specific brand of peppermint candy Mrs. Chen from down the street loved. We knew our customers by name, remembered their children’s birthdays, called to check on them when they missed picking up their medications.
We weren’t wealthy, but we were comfortable. Every extra dollar—every bonus from the pharmaceutical suppliers, every bit of profit beyond our modest salaries—went into savings. “For when we’re old,” Arthur always said, squeezing my hand across the pharmacy counter during slow afternoons. “For when we can’t work anymore. So we never have to worry. So we never have to be a burden.”
We saved methodically, almost obsessively. No fancy vacations, no expensive cars, no home renovations beyond what was absolutely necessary. Our luxury was knowing that our future was secure, that we’d built something solid that could carry us through our retirement years with dignity and independence.
By the time Arthur died three years ago—sudden heart attack, collapsed behind the counter while counting out Mrs. Hernandez’s blood pressure medication, gone before the ambulance even arrived—we had $280,000 in our joint savings account. It represented forty years of sacrifice, of choosing security over indulgence, of building a foundation we thought was unshakeable.
When Arthur died, I thought the worst pain of my life had already happened. The funeral, the empty house, the pharmacy we had to sell because I couldn’t run it alone, the dinners I cooked for two out of habit before remembering I was eating alone now. The grief was overwhelming, the kind that makes you understand why they call it “heartbreak”—because your chest actually aches, your heart actually feels like it’s been physically damaged.
I never dreamed the real heartbreak would come from the son we’d built everything for.
Robert is my only child. Forty-two years old, married to Sarah for eight years, working as a regional sales manager for a medical supply company. He’d always been charming—quick with a joke, good at reading people, the kind of son who remembered to call on Sundays and showed up for holidays with expensive wine and stories that made everyone laugh.
After Arthur died, Robert stepped up. Or at least, that’s what I thought at the time. He handled the funeral arrangements, dealt with the insurance companies, helped me navigate the sale of the pharmacy. “Mom, let me handle the complicated stuff,” he’d say, putting his arm around my shoulders. “You just focus on taking care of yourself. That’s what Dad would want.”
I was grateful. I was drowning in grief and paperwork and the overwhelming task of rebuilding a life I’d never imagined living alone. Having Robert take charge felt like a blessing.
Six months after Arthur’s death, Robert sat me down at my kitchen table with a folder full of papers.
“Mom, we need to talk about practical stuff,” he said gently. “What if something happens to you? What if you have a medical emergency and can’t access your accounts? We should set things up so I can help you if you need it.”
It made sense. I was seventy years old, recently widowed, living alone. What if I fell? What if I had a stroke like Arthur? What if I needed someone to pay my bills, access my money, make decisions on my behalf?
“Power of attorney,” Robert explained, spreading papers across the table. “It just means I can help manage things if you can’t. It doesn’t change anything day-to-day. You’re still in control. This is just… insurance. Protection.”
I trusted him completely. He was my son. The boy I’d raised, whose scraped knees I’d bandaged, whose homework I’d checked, whose college tuition Arthur and I had paid. The man who’d held my hand at his father’s funeral and promised me I’d never be alone.
So I went to the bank with him. Eastern Massachusetts Savings and Loan, the same bank where Arthur and I had our accounts for thirty years. Sebastian Rivera, the branch manager, had known us forever—had approved our small business loan when we bought the pharmacy, had helped us refinance our mortgage, had attended Arthur’s funeral.
“Mrs. Martinez,” Sebastian said warmly, shaking my hand. “How are you holding up?”
“Day by day,” I said, the answer I’d been giving everyone for months.
Robert explained what we needed—power of attorney on my main savings account, the one with the $280,000. Sebastian walked us through the paperwork, explained what it meant, asked if I understood what I was authorizing.
“Yes,” I said confidently. “If something happens to me, Robert can access the account to pay my bills, handle my affairs. But it’s still my account. I’m still in control unless I’m incapacitated.”
“Exactly right,” Sebastian confirmed. “The power of attorney only activates if you’re unable to manage your own finances. Otherwise, it’s just a safety measure.”
I signed the forms. Handed Robert the keys to my financial life without hesitation, without doubt, without the slightest suspicion that I was making the biggest mistake of my life.
That was fourteen months ago.
For the next year, nothing seemed amiss. Robert called regularly, visited every few weeks, took me to doctor’s appointments and grocery shopping. Sarah came along sometimes, bringing flowers or homemade cookies, always hugging me and calling me “Mom” in that affectionate way that made me feel like I’d gained a daughter, not just a daughter-in-law.
They talked occasionally about wanting a vacation home—”somewhere we can escape the Boston winters,” Sarah would say—but it seemed like a distant dream, the kind of thing people talk about without any real plan to make it happen.
I checked my bank balance monthly, the way Arthur and I always had. The number stayed steady: $280,000, give or take a few dollars in interest. My security. My independence. My future.
Until it wasn’t.
The day everything shattered was a Tuesday in October. One of those perfect New England autumn days where the leaves are at peak color and the air has just enough bite to remind you winter is coming. I’d been out to lunch with my friend Rebecca—a two-hour affair at our favorite Italian place where we’d lingered over pasta and gossip and decaf coffee.
Coming home around two-thirty in the afternoon, I pulled into my driveway and realized I’d left my reading glasses on the dining room table. I needed them to read the book I’d brought for later that evening—a mystery novel Rebecca had recommended—and I was annoyed with myself for being so forgetful.
I let myself in through the front door as quietly as possible. Robert’s car was in the driveway—he’d mentioned stopping by to “check on a few things”—and I didn’t want to disturb him if he was working on something. The house was quiet, that particular kind of quiet that makes you instinctively move softly, not wanting to break the stillness.
That’s when I heard his voice.
Robert was in the living room—my living room, with the furniture Arthur and I had bought thirty years ago, with the family photos on the mantel—talking on his phone. His voice was low but clear, carrying through the hallway with perfect acoustics.
And he was laughing.
“I can only imagine her face when she sees the empty account,” he said, and the cruelty in his voice—the casual, amused cruelty—made me freeze in the hallway, my hand still on the doorknob.
“Honey, it’s done,” he continued, speaking to someone on the other end. “Two hundred eighty thousand dollars. It’s all in your account now, just like we planned. The beach house is ours.”
There was a pause while the other person spoke. Then Robert laughed again, that same cold sound that didn’t match any laugh I’d ever heard from my son before.
“She won’t even notice for weeks. By the time she does, we’ll have already closed on the property. What’s she going to do, sue her own son? She’ll be upset, sure, but she’ll get over it. Family is family. She’s not going to press charges or make a big scene. She never does.”
He said Sarah’s name then—my daughter-in-law, the woman who’d hugged me at her wedding and promised to take care of my son, the woman I’d welcomed into our family with open arms and an open heart.
Sarah. The account was in Sarah’s name.
My vision blurred. My hands started shaking. I backed out of the house as quietly as I’d entered, pulled the door closed with trembling fingers, and somehow made it to my car before the full weight of what I’d heard crashed over me.
I drove three blocks before I had to pull over because I couldn’t see through my tears.
$280,000. Gone. Transferred to Sarah’s account. For a beach house.
Not borrowed. Not requested. Not discussed. Stolen.
By my own son. Using the power of attorney I’d signed in good faith, believing I was being prudent and responsible, believing I was trusting someone who loved me.
I sat in my car outside a stranger’s house, sobbing so hard I thought I might be sick, and it wasn’t just about the money. It was about the forty years Arthur and I had worked for that security. It was about the Christmas mornings when Robert was small, believing we were raising a good man. It was about every sacrifice we’d made, every dinner we’d skipped, every vacation we’d postponed, all so we could build something solid for our future.
It was about the phone call I’d have to make to Arthur’s grave, telling him that our son—our only child—had stolen everything we’d worked for.
It was about realizing that the person I’d trusted most in the world, after Arthur, had looked at me and seen not his mother but an opportunity. An asset to be liquidated.
I don’t know how long I sat there. Long enough that a woman came out of the house I’d parked in front of and asked if I needed help. Long enough that the afternoon light started to fade toward evening. Long enough that when I finally drove home, Robert’s car was gone and the house was empty except for my reading glasses still sitting on the dining room table where I’d left them.
I called Rebecca that night. She answered on the second ring, instantly alert. “Mary? What’s wrong? You sound terrible.”
I told her everything. The overheard phone call. The $280,000. The beach house. The casual cruelty in Robert’s voice as he talked about how I wouldn’t even notice, wouldn’t make a scene, wouldn’t do anything because “family is family.”
Rebecca didn’t sugarcoat a thing. She never had—it was one of the things I loved about her. “Mary, you need to go to the bank tomorrow,” she said firmly. “First thing. Before you call Robert, before you confront him, before you do anything else. You go to the bank and you verify what happened. And if it’s what you think it is…”
She paused, and I heard her take a breath. “Mary, this has a name. Elder financial abuse. It’s a crime. A felony. And it doesn’t matter that he’s your son. It matters that he stole from you.”
“I can’t—” I started, but she cut me off.
“Yes, you can. You can and you will, because if you don’t, he gets away with forty years of your hard work. He gets away with stealing your security, your independence, your future. And Mary? If he did it once, he’ll do it again. He’ll keep doing it until there’s nothing left.”
I barely slept that night. I lay in the bed I’d shared with Arthur for forty-three years, staring at the ceiling, thinking about the son I’d raised and the stranger who’d laughed about robbing his own mother.
The next morning, I was waiting when Eastern Massachusetts Savings and Loan opened at nine a.m. I was the first person through the door, and when Sebastian saw me, his professional smile faltered.
“Mrs. Martinez? Is everything okay?”
“I need to check on my account,” I said, and my voice was steadier than I expected. “The savings account. The one with the power of attorney.”
Sebastian’s expression shifted from friendly to concerned. He gestured me into his office, closed the door, and pulled up my account on his computer.
The silence that followed was deafening.
“Mrs. Martinez,” he said finally, his voice very gentle, “when did you last check your balance?”
“Three weeks ago. It was $280,000.”
He turned the screen toward me. The balance line read: $247.18.
$247.18. Out of $280,000.
“There were three large transfers,” Sebastian said quietly. “All within the past week. All to an account at a different bank, registered to Sarah Ruiz.”
Sarah’s maiden name. She’d kept it professionally, though she’d taken Martinez socially.
Sebastian printed the statements, his hands moving with careful precision, and slid them across the desk toward me. Three transfers: $100,000 on Tuesday. $90,000 on Thursday. $90,000 on Friday.
All authorized by the power of attorney. All perfectly legal, from the bank’s perspective, because I’d given Robert the authority to move my money.
The room spun. I gripped the edge of Sebastian’s desk, trying to breathe, trying to process what I was seeing.
“Mrs. Martinez,” Sebastian said carefully, “did you authorize these transfers?”
“No.”
“Did you know about them?”
“Not until yesterday. I… I overheard my son talking about it.”
Sebastian was quiet for a long moment. Then he said something that changed everything: “Mrs. Martinez, this isn’t a family misunderstanding. This isn’t a miscommunication. What your son did—using power of attorney to transfer your money without your knowledge or consent, for his personal benefit—that’s theft. That’s financial exploitation. And in Massachusetts, when it’s done to someone over sixty-five, it’s a felony.”
The word hung in the air between us. Felony.
“I can help you file a dispute with the bank,” Sebastian continued. “But Mrs. Martinez, you need to understand—this goes beyond the bank. This is a criminal matter. You need to report this to the police. You need to contact the district attorney’s office. You need to treat this like what it is: a crime.”
My hands were shaking again. “He’s my son.”
“I know.” Sebastian’s voice was infinitely kind. “And that makes this unimaginably hard. But Mrs. Martinez, if someone who wasn’t your son had done this—if a stranger had somehow gotten access to your account and stolen $280,000—what would you do?”
“I’d call the police immediately.”
“Then that’s what you need to do now. Because the person who did this doesn’t deserve protection just because you share DNA.”
I left the bank with those printed statements pressed against my chest like they might escape if I didn’t hold them tight enough. I sat in my car in the parking lot and called Rebecca.
“He took it all,” I said when she answered. “All except $247. For a beach house.”
“Where are you?”
“Bank parking lot.”
“Stay there. I’m coming to you. We’re going to the police together.”
“Rebecca, I can’t—”
“Yes, you can. And you will. Mary, listen to me: this isn’t about revenge. This isn’t about being cruel to your son. This is about protecting yourself. This is about making sure he doesn’t do this again, to you or to anyone else. This is about the law applying equally, even when it’s hard.”
She arrived twenty minutes later. We drove together to the district attorney’s office in downtown Boston, a imposing building where I’d never imagined I’d have business, and asked to speak to someone about financial exploitation.
The young prosecutor who met with us—Emily Chen, maybe thirty-five years old, with kind eyes and a no-nonsense demeanor—listened to my story without interrupting. She looked at the bank statements Sebastian had printed. She asked careful questions about the power of attorney, about my relationship with Robert, about the phone call I’d overheard.
When I finished, she leaned back in her chair and said, “Mrs. Martinez, what your son did is absolutely criminal. Massachusetts General Law Chapter 265, Section 49: larceny from a person over sixty-five. It’s a felony punishable by up to five years in state prison.”
“Five years,” I whispered.
“What he did wasn’t borrowing. It wasn’t a misunderstanding. It was intentional theft, using a position of trust and legal authority to steal money for his personal benefit. And the fact that you’re his mother—that makes it worse, not better. It makes it elder abuse.”
She pulled out a form, started filling in information. “We’re going to move immediately to freeze the funds. We’ll file an emergency motion with the court today. With any luck, we can stop them from spending the money before we can recover it.”
“What happens to Robert?” I asked, and my voice broke on his name.
Emily looked at me with genuine compassion. “That depends on several factors. Whether he returns the money. Whether he cooperates with the investigation. Whether he has any prior record. But Mrs. Martinez, I need you to understand—once we file charges, this is out of your control. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts becomes the plaintiff, not you. Even if you change your mind, even if you want to drop charges, we can proceed without your cooperation.”
“I don’t want to send my son to prison,” I said, tears streaming down my face.
“I understand. But he made a choice. He chose to steal from you. He chose to exploit your trust. And choices have consequences.”
By four o’clock that afternoon, the DA’s office had filed an emergency motion to freeze the accounts. By five o’clock, a judge had granted it.
By five-thirty, Robert was calling my phone.
I let it ring four times before answering, trying to steady my voice.
“Mom?” Robert sounded confused, maybe a little panicked. “Hey, something weird is going on. The bank just called Sarah—they said her account is frozen? Some kind of legal hold? Do you know anything about this? Did you accidentally report something to the bank?”
The lie came so easily to him. The concerned son, checking on his confused elderly mother, assuming I’d made some mistake that he’d need to fix.
I smiled through my tears, channeling forty years of retail pharmacy customer service, and said sweetly, “Oh my, that does sound strange. I’m sure it’s just some kind of glitch. You know how banks are with their computers. I’ll stop by tomorrow and ask Sebastian about it.”
“That would be great, Mom. Thanks. I’m sure it’s nothing, but Sarah’s kind of freaking out. The money’s supposed to transfer to the title company on Friday for the house closing.”
“What house closing, dear?”
The pause was almost imperceptible. “Oh, didn’t I mention it? We found this amazing beach house in Rhode Island. Investment property. We’re closing this week.”
“How wonderful,” I said, my voice steady and warm and completely convincing. “I hope the bank thing gets sorted out quickly then.”
“Yeah, me too. Love you, Mom.”
“Love you too, sweetie.”
I hung up and immediately started crying again, but this time it was different. Not just grief, but something else. Something harder.
He had no idea. He thought I was still the confused, elderly mother who wouldn’t notice, wouldn’t question, wouldn’t fight back. He thought he’d gotten away with it.
But while he was still pretending, while he was still playing the concerned son checking on his mother’s bank error, the district attorney’s office already had his name on a file. Already had evidence. Already had a case number.
And for the first time since I’d heard that awful laugh echo through my hallway, I felt something stronger than heartbreak.
I felt clear. I felt certain. I felt like myself again, like the woman who’d run a business for forty years, who’d balanced books and caught discrepancies and never let the numbers lie.
I wasn’t just a mother anymore. I was a witness. And I was done being their victim.
The next few weeks unfolded with the inexorable logic of a legal system that, for once, seemed to be working exactly as it should.
Robert and Sarah’s attorney contacted me, offering to “return the money immediately to clear up this misunderstanding.” The DA’s office advised me not to respond, not to negotiate, to let the criminal process proceed.
The investigation revealed that this hadn’t been impulsive. Robert had been planning it for months—researching beach properties, setting up Sarah’s account specifically to receive the funds, timing the transfers to coincide with when I was least likely to check my balance.
The phone records showed dozens of calls between Robert and Sarah in the weeks leading up to the theft, discussing strategy, timing, how to handle me if I noticed too soon.
They’d planned to tell me eventually, Robert’s lawyer claimed. They’d planned to pay me back. They’d intended it as a “loan.”
But Emily Chen, the prosecutor, shredded that defense with cold precision: “A loan requires consent. Agreement. Documentation. What Mr. Martinez did was wait until his mother was elderly and grieving, convince her to sign over legal authority, and then exploit that authority to steal her life savings. That’s not a loan. That’s a con.”
The criminal case moved forward. Robert was charged with larceny from an elder and financial exploitation. Sarah was charged as an accessory. They faced up to five years each.
The civil case was simpler: full restitution of $280,000 plus interest, legal fees, and damages. The frozen accounts meant the money couldn’t be spent, which meant recovery was likely.
But the damage to our relationship was irreversible.
Robert sent me letters—long, rambling letters full of apologies and excuses and pleas for forgiveness. “I made a terrible mistake.” “I never meant to hurt you.” “I was under financial pressure.” “Sarah really wanted the house.” “I thought you wouldn’t mind because you don’t need that much money anyway.”
That last line—”you don’t need that much money anyway”—revealed everything. He’d looked at my life savings and decided I didn’t deserve it. Decided he had more right to it than I did. Decided my security mattered less than his beach house.
I didn’t respond to the letters.
The trial was set for the following spring. Robert’s attorney negotiated a plea deal: full restitution, three years probation, community service, and a felony conviction that would follow him forever.
Emily called me before the sentencing hearing. “Mrs. Martinez, the judge will likely ask if you want to make a statement. You don’t have to. But if you do, this is your chance to tell Robert—and the court—how this affected you.”
I thought about it for days. What could I possibly say that would capture the enormity of the betrayal? What words could convey the loss of not just money, but trust, security, the belief that your child loved you more than he loved your bank balance?
In the end, I wrote something simple. I read it in court, my voice steady, while Robert sat at the defense table with his head down and Sarah cried quietly beside him.
“Your Honor, I’m seventy years old. My husband and I worked for forty years to save that money—not for luxuries, but for security. For the peace of mind that comes from knowing you won’t be a burden, that you can take care of yourself, that you have a cushion against life’s uncertainties.
“My son didn’t just take my money. He took my security. My independence. My ability to trust. He looked at me—his mother, who raised him, who loved him unconditionally—and he saw an opportunity. A mark. Someone to exploit.
“I will get my money back, thanks to this court and to the law. But I will never get back what I lost: the belief that my son loved me for who I am, not for what I have. The trust that took seventy years to build and one phone call to destroy.
“I don’t know if I can ever forgive him. I don’t know if I should even try. What I do know is that he needs to face consequences, because without consequences, there’s no incentive for change. And I need to know that the law protects people like me—elderly people, vulnerable people, people whose own children see them as piggy banks to be raided when convenient.
“Thank you for hearing me. Thank you for taking this seriously. Thank you for showing that theft is theft, even when it’s family.”
The judge sentenced Robert to the plea agreement terms: full restitution, probation, community service, and a permanent felony record. Sarah received a lighter sentence—restitution assistance and probation—as an accessory rather than the primary offender.
The money was returned to my account within sixty days. All $280,000, plus interest, plus legal fees.
I was whole again, financially.
Emotionally, I’m not sure I’ll ever be completely whole. How do you recover from learning that your child—the baby you held, the boy you raised, the man you trusted—would steal from you without hesitation or remorse?
It’s been a year now. Robert is forbidden from contacting me under the terms of his probation unless I initiate contact. I haven’t.
He sends cards on holidays—they arrive in the mail, forwarded by his probation officer, messages about how sorry he is, how he’s getting therapy, how he understands now what he did wrong.
I read them once and file them away. I don’t respond.
Sarah divorced him six months after the sentencing. I heard through mutual acquaintances that she moved back to her parents’ house, that she’s working as a dental hygienist again, that she tells people her ex-husband “had some legal troubles.”
I’m still living in Malden, in my modest house, with my recovered savings intact. I volunteer at a senior center now, teaching a financial literacy class for elderly women. I tell them about power of attorney, about the warning signs of financial exploitation, about the importance of maintaining control of your own money no matter who asks you to trust them.
I tell them my story. Not for sympathy, but as a warning: it can happen to anyone. It can happen with your own children. It can happen when you think you’re being prudent and responsible.
And I tell them what to do if it happens: document everything, report immediately, don’t let family ties stop you from protecting yourself.
Because love shouldn’t cost you everything. Trust shouldn’t make you vulnerable to exploitation. And being someone’s mother doesn’t mean you sacrifice your security for their greed.
Rebecca comes with me sometimes, sitting in the back of the classroom, nodding when I get to the hard parts. She was right about everything: about going to the bank, about reporting it, about treating it like the crime it was.
“I’m proud of you,” she told me after one class, when an elderly woman thanked me tearfully for giving her the courage to report her grandson’s theft. “You turned something horrible into something helpful. You’re protecting people.”
“I couldn’t protect myself,” I said quietly. “Not from my own son.”
“But you fought back,” Rebecca insisted. “When it would have been easier to pretend it didn’t happen, to accept the loss and stay quiet, you fought back. That takes courage.”
Maybe it does. Or maybe it’s just survival—recognizing that staying silent means accepting that you don’t matter, that your life’s work doesn’t matter, that theft is acceptable if it’s done by family.
I couldn’t accept that. I can’t accept that.
So I sit in my house that I still own, with my savings account that’s still intact, and I live my life with the complicated knowledge that I did the right thing even though it cost me my relationship with my only child.
I don’t know if Robert will ever truly understand what he did. I don’t know if he lies awake at night thinking about the phone call I overheard, about the casual cruelty of “she won’t even notice,” about the mother he betrayed for a beach house he never got to buy.
I hope he does. I hope it haunts him. Not because I’m cruel, but because understanding is the only path to genuine change, and without understanding, he’s just a man who got caught, not a man who learned.
As for me, I’m learning to live with the loss. Not the financial loss—that was recovered. But the loss of innocence, of trust, of the belief that your children will always love you more than they love money.
I’m seventy-one now. I have enough money to live comfortably for the rest of my life. I have friends who care about me, activities that fulfill me, a community that values me.
I have everything except the family I thought I had.
But I also have something I didn’t have before: absolute clarity about who I am and what I deserve. I deserve respect. I deserve honesty. I deserve to be valued for who I am, not for what’s in my bank account.
And anyone who can’t see that—even if they’re my son—doesn’t deserve a place in my life.
That’s not cruelty. That’s self-preservation.
That’s what Arthur would have wanted for me: not to be destroyed by betrayal, but to survive it and build something new from the wreckage.
So I keep teaching my class. I keep living in my house. I keep my money in my account, under my control, with no one’s name attached except mine.
And when I drive past the bank, when I see Sebastian through the window, I remember that quiet moment in his office when he called it what it was: theft.
Not a misunderstanding. Not a family matter. Theft.
That clarity saved me. Naming it accurately, treating it seriously, refusing to minimize it because of who did it—that’s what made justice possible.
I went back into the house for my reading glasses and overheard my son planning my financial ruin.
But I didn’t stay quiet. I didn’t accept it. I didn’t protect him at my own expense.
I fought back.
And a year later, I’m still here. Diminished in some ways, stronger in others, but still here.
Still standing. Still solvent. Still myself.
That’s victory enough.
THE END
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