When Sabrina heard Gloria saying that, she immediately cut her off. "Mom, you were sick?"
Gloria feared up. "Mom, why didn't you tell me that you were sick and was hospitalized? If you hadn't told me today, I wouldn't have known!" She angrily complained to her mother.
Her mother smiled, and her smile was very kind. "Silly girl, I was truly sick, I would definitely tell you, wouldn't I? I have always been in very good health. I have done loads of hard work in the field in my day. My body was very strong. Later on, I was locked up in the basement by Lincoln. After that, I escaped from there and I ran around this city every day to find you, which was equivalent to training my body. "All these years, some people got headaches and fevers, some needed intravenous therapy, and some even had coughs and bronchitis, but I've gotten any o f those. I would watch a cold too, but I basically always get over it in a day. Later o n, I found you, and my life got better. My daily routines were very normal as well. I had great food and wore great clothes. Most of my time every day was spent taking care of my health and dancing. Let me just tell you this much, my health is better than yours!"
Sabrina looked at her mother with a doting gaze. "Look at how smug you are. Since you're healthy and you didn't get sick, why did you get admitted to the hospital the next day? What exactly is the reason? And... you were so weak?"
Sabrina still cared about her mother, after all, so she anxiously asked her mother what had happened, "Mom, quickly tell me. Quickly!"
"I wasn't sick. It's a strategy that I have discussed with the police. It's a strategy to let them take the bait. Do you understand it now, silly girl?"
Sabrina laughed. "Mum, you've already turned into an expert in solving a case. You even pretended to sound weak. I think not only were you an expert in solving a case, but you're also a skilled actress."
Gloria let out a hearty laugh, then she sighed. "I just wanted to do something meaningful. I just wanted to seek justice for the women who live alone like me."
Sabrina nodded and looked at her mother while feeling concerned. "Mom, I know that you have a sense of righteousness, and you also want to do something. But Mum, promise me that you’re never going to get involved again in the future. I was worried sick." "Did you know that those women who were deceived by a man like Janes were not exclusively wealthy? If they were truly wealthy, then it more or less would’ve been a little better. At least, their lives would not be at risk after they were cheated out of their money. However, do you know how evil this group of people can be?" said Gloria. She was furious.
"Could it be that they also cheated people who were poor? Even so, the poor have no money. What do they cheat them for?" Sabrina subconsciously asked.
After giving it some thought, Sabrina’s jaw dropped. "Could it be that this group of people even cheated elderly ladies to get their hands on their houses? Fuck! These people absolutely deserved to be punished by death! They deserved the death penalty!"
Gloria patted her daughter and said after she sighed, "That's not that bad. At least those old people, who had houses and money, were living quite comfortably. Also, they were already very old. I am not looking down on old people. I, myself, have already become an old person. I just wanted to say that in comparison to those old people who were cheated, if an eighteen -year-old girl, who was desperately waiting for money to save her life, was cheated out of her money after she had gathered the money and was right about to go for an operation, the eighteen-year-old girl could only wait for her death. How heartbreaking is that?"
Sabrina dumbfounded. "There's...such a thing?"
At that point, Gloria's tone became much gloomier. "She was a single mother. She was not that old. She's not even forty yet. She had raised her daughter by herself, but in the end, her daughter got critically ill. The young mother was covered in tears every day. When she was truly out of a solution, she chose to crowdfund. On the first day of the crowdfunding, the young mother received her first big sum of money, which was a thousand dollars."
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