At that moment, my mother was being swarmed by reporters outside our front door, all because my younger brother had become the top scorer in the state.If no one had mentioned me, she probably would have forgotten she even had another son.So, after three years, she finally deigned to remove me from her blacklist and symbolically transferred twenty dollars for my living expenses.When no reply came from the other side, her expression instantly darkened. Her fingers hammered against the phone, the sharp tapping echoing her irritation.[Say something. Don't act like you're dead.][If you don't want it, then return it.]Those cold, cutting words dragged me back to that bone-chilling night in the snow.I wanted to tell her that I was already dead—that I had frozen to death in the cheap down jacket she bought me.Winter in the north is brutally cold. So cold that, after failing to secure a hospital bed, I merely closed my eyes for a moment—and never opened them again.But now, no o
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