"Your mom's treatment put a lot of strain on our finances... and we never really managed to leave it behind, afterwards." He sighed. 4 eyes were staring at him blinking rapidly as if this was some joke, "I tried my best to cover the expenses but the income of the workshop does not balance the outcome any longer..." He stopped to take a sip of water from his glass. It didn't do any good to his dry throat, "...add the the crisis of the ready-to-wear sector nationwide and we couldn't face the full blow."