Zero Devotion: The Price of My Mother's Love
Language: en
My mother took out a $50,000 high-interest loan, governed by the rules of the "KinKeeper" app, which stipulated that the child with the lowest "Devotion Score" had to pay it back. And because I missed her calls while working overtime, because I was too awkward to sweet-talk her... my score was always dead last. The weight of her debt was suffocating me. To fill this bottomless pit, I had to work three jobs a day. Eventually, the exhaustion broke me. I collapsed at a construction site. When I woke up, a nurse was speaking frantically: "Acute bleeding gastric ulcer. You need surgery…