After My Cancer Diagnosis, My Mom Transferred Away My Life-Saving Money

Every time I didn't do as I was told, my mother would kneel down and slap her own face.

In elementary school, my sister stole the whole class's activity fund, and my mother wanted me to take the blame.

When I refused, she knelt right there in front of my entire class and slapped herself, sobbing that she'd raised me wrong.

So I became the thief in everyone's eyes, and I was frozen out for five straight years.

Before the SATs, my sister and I were competing for the same college recommendation, and my mother told me to give it up.