Thea “I’m talking about the scammers that duped you out of your life savings. Scammers are the absolute worst, and they get away with so much.” He sits down in the seat across from me, his tone completely nonchalant, as if he doesn't know the most horrifically embarrassing, humiliating secret that I have. Yes, I was stupid. I fell for a scam and it cost me my entire life savings. I've spent the time since then trying to build things back up and feel like I'm not making any progress. Some days I'm even hit with a why bother feeling because I had money built up and now it's just gone. What's to say I won't lose more money to scammers next time? “So you talked to my father, found out about my scammer, and the two of you decided that you would go behind my back, set up a savings account, de

