The ATM Husband's Reckoning

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aking her demands sound

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ooking. It was addressed to Chloe, but I open

e co-owned, though I'd made almost all the mortgage payments,

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ransfer happened two years ago, right arou

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ing in my hand. "Chloe, the

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id for most of it

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iness ventures," always at her tearful insi

expenses, co-pays, and "alternative th

entor, had offered me a dream position in

cried fo

xiety gets worse when I'm far from them. Y

it down. For

tled, with these children, this new l

ren't for "us." T

condoms, the cabin, Liam. It wasn't just a dyi