Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo

Author:Veronica Raimo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: 2023-05-30T20:49:58+00:00

Anyway, that same summer, my father had been given a company car. Since he was the head of human resources, during the Christmas holidays we were used to getting packages from new hires or their relatives who wanted to express their gratitude.

The mountain of presents was stacked neatly by the door and then returned to the senders as soon as the flow of donations stopped pouring in. That was what my father thought was the life: never asking for and never accepting anything from anyone.

I always burst into tears when I got home and found the foyer empty, though naturally at the time I wouldn’t have known what to do with a bottle of armagnac or a silver cigarette lighter case.

Nevertheless, he’d been forced to accept the company car. Which was humiliating: his old Opel Kadett didn’t meet his company’s standards. We were poorer than someone in his job was expected to be, and rather than opting for a more logical solution like giving him a raise, they’d gone with a riskier, counterintuitive solution: we’d been allowed to stay poorer but with a car for the wealthy.

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