“The security deposit on the Portland apartment,” I said. “Fourteen hundred dollars. I repaid it in November of 2015. Bank transfer. I have the record.”
A brief pause.
“There may be some items that need to be reviewed,” my father said.
“There are more than some,” I said. “The car. You contributed two thousand dollars toward a car that cost eleven thousand. I paid the remaining nine thousand from my own savings and the subsequent four years of payments from my own income. Your contribution was two thousand dollars, which I was grateful for at the time, and which is not the same as a loan, and which you did not characterize as a loan when you made it.”
“We considered it understood,” my mother said.
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