Dad told me that a week earlier, Priya’s father had contacted one of his business associates and casually started asking questions about our family’s finances. That alone wouldn’t have bothered him, but then Mom noticed something stranger. Priya had followed several of Dad’s companies online and had apparently told someone that rooming with me could be “really useful.” My parents didn’t know whether she was simply curious or whether she had chosen me because she thought my family had money. So they decided to find out before leaving me there for the semester.
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