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Rosa had overheard Mom talking to my aunt on the phone.
“I don’t even know what to tell people,” Mom had said.
Apparently having a daughter who understood plant biology was more embarrassing than having a daughter without a daughter-shaped story she could repeat at dinner parties.
My parents paid Vanessa’s graduate tuition.
All of it.
Mom announced the amount at a holiday dinner as if she were reading a financial statement.
My tuition was paid with landscaping work, scholarships, and student loans.
Nobody announced
