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My Parents Returned My Adopted Sister When She Turned 18 — They Kept The Monthly Checks

My Parents Returned My Adopted Sister When She Turned 18 — They Kept The Monthly Checks "YOUR SISTER DECIDED SHE NEEDED INDEPENDENCE," my mother explained at Thanksgiving, her voice carrying the practiced compassion of someone who'd rehearsed her lies in the mirror. "Maya wanted to find her own path. We gave her our blessing and some money to get started—you know how eighteen-year-olds are, always eager to prove they don't need family." My father nodded solemnly, playing his supporting role in a narrative they'd clearly constructed together, while I processed the sudden absence of the sister who'd been part of my life for twelve years. Three months later, I found Maya living in a homeless shelter forty miles away, weighing eighty-seven pounds, clutching the garbage bag of clothes our parents had handed her at a bus station along with forty dollars and instructions to never contact them again—and that's when I discovered the truth about the $1,400 monthly adoption subsidy checks that had been depositing into my parents' account since the day she arrived, payments that had turned my sister into a revenue stream they'd simply discontinued when she aged out of profitability.