Story By N. A. Sol
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N. A. Sol

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Not Poor Enough For Pity
Updated at May 9, 2026, 04:43
In a world of the rich and the poor, what happens to the people in the middle? Everyone says I’m lucky.​ They see my father’s success, my mother’s prestige, and the macaron-colored lifestyle of a girl who has everything. In a rural town where people work to the bone just to eat, my problems are considered a luxury. I am the girl with the silver spoon, the "lucky" one, the bird free from the cage.​ But wealth is a different kind of prison.​ While my friend Ashley smiles through her poverty with a genuine warmth I can’t buy, I am drowning in a sea of expensive glitter and cold expectations. I am suffocating under a sun that shines too bright on a life I’ve learned to hate.​How do you ask for help when you have no "real" reason to suffer? How do you cry when you aren't poor enough for pity?​A raw, internal look at the bitterness of envy, the weight of privilege, and the silent scream of a girl who has everything—except a reason to stay.
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