“Do you ever regret mortgaging the business?” I saw how it was. An answer for an answer. A piece of shrimp slipped out of my taco and landed on my plate. Smooth move. “Oh God, yes. We should’ve sold it as soon as we knew Dad was sick. We would’ve gotten more money and started the treatment earlier. The experimental therapy was working, it’s just that by the time the mortgage went through, my father was too far gone. But I was very green at that point, and running the business with an established name seemed like a better option. Had we sold it, I would’ve built it back up by now under a
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