The family trust fund keeps them housed and fed and puts clothes on their back. Without it they’d be living in impoverished life on the wrong side of town. She’d have to find a job and scrimp and save just to pay the rent and bills. All of this she’ll explain to her son when he does return home, but at eleven years old, will he understand? Valerie sighed and decided to leave the trunk unopened for a while. She dons her apron and loses herself in the household chores for a couple of hours.

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