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My boyfriend of four years dumped me the second he landed a job at a big tech company. He pulled up in his company car, flashed some watch some rich woman supposedly gave him, and looked down at me. "Julia, grinding's exhausting. That chairwoman? She's letting me skip twenty years of struggle." He showed me her picture—just a hand with an emerald ring. I couldn't help but laugh. That woman was my mom.