My parents emptied my college fund—$187,000 my grandparents had saved over eighteen years—to buy my brother a house. When I asked why, my mother said, “Because he’s the one who actually matters in this family.” I didn’t yell. I didn’t cry in front of her. I called my grandmother. What she did next ended up making national news.
My name is Drew Collins, and I was eighteen the morning I learned that the future I had spent my whole life counting on had not disappeared because of bad luck, market losses, or some clerical mistake buried in a bank computer.
It had been taken.
On purpose.
