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My god, they had changed the lock on my house. My heart started beating so fast. I thought I would have a heart attack right there on the porch of the house I bought with the sweat of 40 years cleaning offices.
That’s when I heard footsteps approaching from inside. The door opened, and there she was—Emily, my daughter-in-law. But she wasn’t wearing her usual face, that mask of the perfect daughter-in-law she had worn for 3 years.
“We changed everything. This is our house now.”
And my legs almost gave out from under me. Our house.
Our. I bought this house by myself with my money, with my sacrifices. I worked since I was 16 years old cleaning floors, bathrooms, entire office buildings from Monday to Sunday.
I saved penny by penny until I had the $180,000 this property cost me. I put it in my name with my documents, with my signature. But out of a mother’s love, that blind love we women have for our children, I allowed Robert, my only son, to live here with his wife temporarily, while they saved for their own place.
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