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===== 🔍 What Her Reply Reveals =====

Her words:

: “Then my aunt would feel bad and the relationship would be damaged.”

She’s saying that refusing the donation would make the aunt feel bad, so she accepted it to protect the aunt’s feelings.

This flips the power dynamic in a strange way:
* Instead of acknowledging she received a gift that helped her life…
* She implies her acceptance was a favor to the giver, to help the giver feel good about themselves.

This mindset shifts moral credit to herself — not for being grateful, but for “letting” the aunt be generous. It’s a clever form of emotional reframing, and not a particularly healthy one.