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My Parents Demanded My Downtown Loft - The Title Lawyer Spoke Up. The crystal glass shattered against the hardwood floor three feet from where I stood, red wine spreading across the dining room like a bloodstain. Forty-eight relatives went silent mid-conversation, forks suspended over their Thanksgiving plates.My father's chest was heaving, his face the color of the cranberry sauce cooling on the table. My mother had her hand over her mouth, but her eyes were hard. Calculating.And my sister Brooke sat at the far end of the table, crying perfectly photogenic tears into her napkin while her fiancé rubbed her back in slow, sympathetic circles."You're really going to say no?" my father said, his voice shaking with rage. "To your own sister?"I looked down at my phone, at the text I'd just sent four minutes ago, and slipped it back into my purse."Yes," I said calmly. "I am."My name is Maya Richardson. I'm thirty-one years old, and I'm a senior compliance officer for a tech company in downtown Portland.