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I never learned all the details. The company was drowning in debt, and they couldn’t keep up with payments anymore. Mom mentioned something in a text about shrinking profits and rising expenses.
Within months, they lost almost everything they had spent decades bragging about.
They appeared at our front door looking smaller than I’d ever seen them. Exhausted. Desperate. And suddenly unbelievably polite.
My parents’ business failed.
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