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I felt my blood run cold. Docile? Orphan? My father was an engineer, yes, but not just any kind. He was the head of design at Kinetic Designs LLC, a defense industry firm, a modest man who never boasted about his position. The apartment in that old building actually belonged to my late aunt Clara, and my father kept it for sentimental reasons because he\u2019d grown up there. In reality, we lived in a spacious three-bedroom condo in the affluent Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta. I simply hadn\u2019t felt the need to flaunt any of that to my future mother-in-law.<\/p>\n

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I felt my blood run cold. Docile? Orphan? My father was an engineer, yes, but not just any kind. He was the head of design at Kinetic Designs LLC, a defense industry firm, a modest man who never boasted about his position. The apartment in that old building actually belonged to my late aunt Clara,…<\/p>\n

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