“PAY UP OR LEAVE MY HOUSE!” MY FATHER SCREAMED WHILE I WAS STILL BLEEDING FROM SURGERY, AND THE MOMENT THE POLICE WALKED INTO MY HOSPITAL ROOM, EVERYTHING HE HAD HIDDEN FOR DECADES BEGAN TO COLLAPSE

“PAY UP OR LEAVE MY HOUSE!” MY FATHER SCREAMED WHILE I WAS STILL BLEEDING FROM SURGERY, AND THE MOMENT THE POLICE WALKED INTO MY HOSPITAL ROOM, EVERYTHING HE HAD HIDDEN FOR DECADES BEGAN TO COLLAPSE

My name is Lena Holloway, and until the age of thirty-two I believed that surviving meant enduring, that loyalty meant silence, and that family—no matter …

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