My grandparents came to talk to my parents about a “adult issue” when I was a child, and we never communicated with them again.
I had no idea what had transpired. Years later, I discovered a cousin on Facebook, and we met for coffee.
I realized that the reason we no longer spoke was because my mother acquired a slew of credit cards and accumulated debt in my grandmother’
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