“We’ll figure it out,” he said. “We always do.”
A month later, Madison’s college acceptance came in. The University of Virginia. She’d worked so hard. She cried when she opened the email.
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The tuition bill came in July.
Richard sat at the kitchen table with the bill in front of him and his head in his hands.
“I can’t do it right now, Claire. Not this year. Not with the business the way it is.”
I paid it.
All four years. In full. I never asked him to pay me back. I told myself it was what a family does.
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At Madison’s graduation, Eleanor stood up at the celebration dinner and gave a toast about how proud Richard must be, to have given his daughter such a wonderful education.
Richard smiled and raised his glass.
Nobody looked at me.
I told myself it didn’t matter.
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