“She left this for you. She wanted you to have part of her inheritance. She always thought of you as her child, too.”
My hands shook as I opened it.
Inside was a letter — short, gentle, full of love I had never seen. I didn’t cry at my father’s funeral. But I cried that day.
In that moment, the bitterness I had carried for so long finally loosened. I realized the woman I had resented wasn’t the villain of my story. She had loved me — quietly, fiercely, and in ways I never understood until it was almost too late.
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