You called to collect a debt.
I’m calling to tell you there’s going to be an investigation.
And whoever signed my name is going to answer for it.”
My father went very quiet. Then he did the thing this family always did.
“Samantha, don’t blow this out of proportion. Justin made a mistake. He was desperate. We’re family. You wouldn’t really report your own brother.”
“You uninvited me from a wedding I paid for,” I said, “and then forged my name to make me pay the rest. And now you’re asking me not to blow it out of proportion.
You’ve spent thirty-nine years telling me I’m strong so you could hand me every weight this family didn’t want to carry.
