Jake

The first time they told me that we were going to be evicted from the house wasn't too long ago. It was when my family's businesses all went bankrupt, and the debts started piling up, which we couldn't afford to pay. We had to find a new home, a very small one that we could afford. But now we were going to have to leave the house again if at least part of the debt wasn't paid.

My father wore an expression of distress that I had never seen on him before, not even the first time we lost everything. I guess this time things were worse because we...