A Debt to Die For
Language: en
After my parents died in a bankruptcy scandal, they left my brother and me with a million-dollar debt. To pay it off, he became a "haunted house tester," sleeping in stigmatized properties to prove they were safe. I took gigs as an extra, playing corpses on TV sets. For five years, we worked ourselves to the bone, never daring to take a day off. Yet, the debt remained. At the end of the year, with just $13,000 left to clear the balance, I gritted my teeth and signed up for a high-risk clinical drug trial. When it was over, I dragged my exhausted body and the cash to find my brother,…