Chapter 13
Well, didn’t I feel like a jerk.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to imply—”
“You did, but it’s fine. Most people look at me and assume I’ve always had money. The truth is, I’ve barely had enough to get by. That was my childhood. Things are different now, but I didn’t have that growing up. Your kids are lucky. You’re around. You work hard to provide for them. They don’t go without. That’s huge.”
“They go without a lot,” I confessed. “There are tons of things they want that I can’t get for them.”
He smiled gently and nodded. “Yeah, but they have a safe place to live and plenty of food to eat. That’s better than I always had.”
Wow. I mean, I knew people lived like that. That there were kids who didn’t have enough growing up, but I hadn’t come face to face with it before. Looking at
