Melomiri

Two Hundred Dollars for a Son

Language: en

When the ambulance rushed me to the hospital, the TV was flooded with coverage praising my parents' selfless virtue. In front of the cameras, they proudly wrapped their arms around Kevin and turned to the reporters with beaming faces: "This three-million-dollar mansion and fifty-thousand-dollar car are the least we could do." "Kevin's parents sacrificed their lives to save us back then, and now we treat him like our own son!" But here I was, in end-stage kidney failure, calling to beg for money for emergency treatment, and my parents brushed me off with a measly two hundred…

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