When You Saw What They Gave Up
You overheard your parents talking, late, about money — about going without something so you could have something. A trip you wanted. New boots. A club you'd asked to join. They weren't complaining. They were just quietly working out how to make it happen, and what they'd skip so it could. You'd asked for it without a second thought. You hadn't pictured the cost landing on them — the small sacrifices, the things they don't get so you do. It changed how the boots felt. Heavier, somehow, and more precious, and tangled up with a new feeling you don't have a clean word for yet.
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