THE COST OF BEING RICH
Chapter Twenty-One

I never saw Rose again.

Since then, I’ve married a beautiful and wealthy woman. She is everything society expects of her with no personality to speak of. We led a good life until the recent stock market crash, which has left us with nothing. Personally, I wouldn’t mind living on the streets. But I can’t do it with a wife and kids. They’re suffocating me until there is hardly any air left.

In a couple of minutes now, I will leave this world with a pure heart. In writing this story, I have changed my mind. I don’t want you to sympathize with me. All I want is for you to know my story, and that there was a man named Caledon Hockley who didn’t make very good choices.

I bid you farewell, for soon I will finally be free.

The End.

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