The Price of Jealousy: A College Nightmare

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y idyllic college dream,

s police, my hands

found in her bag, and my s

e, but my mom' s well-meaning housekeeper,

icisms, then tried to turn m

eous proposal: she wanted to control my finance

n, the sheer delusion,

my mom, trying to slander me,

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n Kevin, her "good, strong boy," w

and the reek of stale cigare

about how they were entit

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