My Mom Kicked Me Out on My Birthday
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Eighteen should feel different.
It doesn't.
At my birthday party, my stepfather announces three rules: forget NYU, pay rent, do all the housework. I wait for Mom to defend me. Instead, she agrees. Says I "need to learn responsibility." That night, she shoves me out the window with five hundred dollars and a vintage handbag.
I spend the next year working retail in Boston, living on my aunt's couch,...
It doesn't.
At my birthday party, my stepfather announces three rules: forget NYU, pay rent, do all the housework. I wait for Mom to defend me. Instead, she agrees. Says I "need to learn responsibility." That night, she shoves me out the window with five hundred dollars and a vintage handbag.
I spend the next year working retail in Boston, living on my aunt's couch,...





















