Love Was Money, and I Was Worth Nothing
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Love wasn't free in our family. It was literal currency.
My sister, Stella Belle, and I both had a Kinship Savings Jar.
It held the love and care we received from our families, which could be traded for anything in the Life Exchange Shop.
When I was six, I bought my mom’s life back from cancer by selling away the pain of her carrying me for nine months.
When I was thirteen, I bought my brother a brand-new leg by trading away every memory of dad’s care and upbringing.
Now, at nineteen, my dad was in a terrible car crash. His body was shattered.
Our family came to the Life Exchange Shop once again.
I nudged my younger sister, Stella, forward.
But mom grabbed her and yanked me to the front instead.
"You've never done anything for this family, yet we gave you so much love and care!"
"Now it's your turn to pay back what we gave you, and you're refusing?" She snapped.
"Besides, everything in that jar came from us anyway. You're grown now. It's only right that you empty it to repay your parents!"
I was shoved against the counter.
Beside me, a girl who couldn't pull anything from her jar suddenly explodes like a firework.
But Mom, I thought in terror, my jar is empty too......
My sister, Stella Belle, and I both had a Kinship Savings Jar.
It held the love and care we received from our families, which could be traded for anything in the Life Exchange Shop.
When I was six, I bought my mom’s life back from cancer by selling away the pain of her carrying me for nine months.
When I was thirteen, I bought my brother a brand-new leg by trading away every memory of dad’s care and upbringing.
Now, at nineteen, my dad was in a terrible car crash. His body was shattered.
Our family came to the Life Exchange Shop once again.
I nudged my younger sister, Stella, forward.
But mom grabbed her and yanked me to the front instead.
"You've never done anything for this family, yet we gave you so much love and care!"
"Now it's your turn to pay back what we gave you, and you're refusing?" She snapped.
"Besides, everything in that jar came from us anyway. You're grown now. It's only right that you empty it to repay your parents!"
I was shoved against the counter.
Beside me, a girl who couldn't pull anything from her jar suddenly explodes like a firework.
But Mom, I thought in terror, my jar is empty too......

















































