08/07/2025
I thought I was the cool uncle, quietly paying my niece Ava’s college tuition for four years, expecting nothing but a little gratitude—until her graduation party, when my sister dismissed me as “just the uncle” and Ava barely acknowledged me. When an unpaid final fee held up her diploma, the truth came crashing out, and now my family’s perfect facade is unraveling at our upcoming reunion. What happens when the one person who held it all together stops playing nice?