On rainy days, Noah would drape his whole raincoat over me while he got soaked to the bone.When kids picked on me, he charged in and fought them, and he ended up with four stitches in his forehead.When he got home, Dad gave him a beating, but he didn't make a sound. He even winked at me and said, "I'm fine."So later on, when he turned out to be bad at school, bad at his jobs, bad at everything, I never looked down on him.I figured, worst case, I'd support him.If he liked playing video games, he could play. If he liked traveling, he could go. I made more than enough to cover it.But now that he had a girlfriend, he actually wanted Mom and me to walk away with nothing, and he acted like it was perfectly reasonable.The nitroglycerin had only just kicked in, and Mom's face was still pale.She spoke up in a shaky voice. "Son... Noah, how can you say that? That company is something your sister worked so hard to build..."Noah suddenly roared, "Mom, shut up! What does an old wo
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