Driscoll Pollard

"My Parents Kicked Me Out Because They Thought I Was Broke. I Let Them Think That. What They Never Knew Was That I Had Already Quietly Bought The Mortgage On The House They Were Living In. And I Had Owned It For Two Years."

At Thanksgiving I Thanked My Grandfather For The Two Hundred Dollar Gift He Sent And He Frowned And Said The Check He Wrote Was For Five Hundred Thousand Dollars And The Silence That Fell Over That Table Told Every Single One Of Us Exactly What Had Happened

My Adopted Sister Stood Up At Family Dinner And Accused Me Of Something So Unthinkable That My Parents Threw Me Out At Seventeen Without Asking A Single Question And Ten Years Later I Walked Back Through That Door With Proof That Destroyed Every Word She Ever Said

At A Family Picnic My Nephew Walked Up To Me And Said Mom Says You Are The Most Selfish Person Here And A Few People Around Us Actually Nodded And I Smiled Packed My Things And Made Sure Every Single One Of Them Felt That Selfishness By Morning

My Dad Smiled At The Dinner Table And Said Well At Least One Of These Kids Is Actually Smart Then Turned And Looked Directly At My Sister's Daughter While My Own Children Sat Right There And I Have Not Taken Them Back To That House Since