She was quiet for a moment, then gently pushed the envelope back toward me.
“You don’t need to pay me to love you,” she said. “And I don’t want to be rewarded for showing up.”
That was when my eyes filled with tears.
Not because of the money—but because she had done what the others hadn’t. She separated love from money without being asked.
She glanced around the room. “Maybe this could help someone who really needs it,” she suggested.
So it did.
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