The First No Was Not Loud

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The first true no did not sound powerful. It sounded like Nora clearing her throat in a meeting room that smelled of coffee, printer ink, and other people's impatience. Monday morning, Darrow Recovery Services arranged the meeting at a glass building downtown, the kind of place where debt wears a tie and calls itself resolution. Nora arrived with Priya beside her, not because Priya was a lawyer but because she had.