How long had it had been since she'd thought back on the evenings around the fire, number games at the kitchen table, or listening to her father sing? Too long. Yes, there had been bad times. And she had tallied them like figures in a column, not remembering to factor in the good. She had doctored the books. Julie Klassen
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She had doctored the books. When she was young, she had secretly used her father’s credit card to order books for school so that she could read ahead and do better in school. She hadn’t asked her father about it, but he had found out when he checked his credit card bill. She hadn’t wanted to hear him say anything about it, but he was angry.

He had told her how disappointed he was in her, that she should have thought about him more instead of taking advantage of his generosity. Then he had told her that if she wanted to do well in school, she should start studying hard right away, not fritter away her time reading trashy novels and listening to pop music all day long.

Source: The Silent Governess

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