From A Broken Home To My Own Happiness

Synopsis

My mother, Anna Grant, endured my father, John Grant, siphoning family funds privately to support his younger brother, Benjamin Grant. He lent my uncle a hundred thousand dollars for the down payment on Benjamin's house, sixty thousand as a business loan for running a restaurant, and thirty thousand dollars for his children's school fees. However, Anna never got a penny from John. John would always claim that supporting Benjamin was his responsibility as the older brother. As a result, our small family of three was forced to scrape by on nothing more than Anna's two-thousand-dollar monthly wage. Until that day, only two chipped bowls were left in the house after all the others had been broken. Anna asked John for twelve dollars to buy three new ones, but John said he had no money. Anna said nothing. Instead, she walked into the kitchen and smashed the last two bowls. "I want a divorce," she said in a soft yet unusually firm voice. John froze for a second, then flew into a rage. Anna ignored him, turned around, and looked at me. "Alex, who are you going with?" She thought I would choose her. But what I said next left both of them frozen.