Equal Value, My Toxic Family Can Rot
Language: en
My mother always preached the rule of "Equal Value Exchange." The better the college you got into, the more allowance you received. She put a literal price tag on my and my twin brother Noah’s college lives based on our schools. "Get into an Ivy League, and you get five hundred dollars a month." "Get into a top-tier regional university, you get four hundred. A standard college gets you three hundred." "If you end up at a local community college, I'm sorry, but you'll only get a two-hundred-dollar monthly safety net." To survive college, I pulled endless all-nighters, burned through…