My stomach tightened.
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“And then?”
Nora’s voice dropped.
“She asked a question.”
“What question?”
“She asked, ‘If Dad and Aunt Lina are becoming one family… where does Mom go?’”Track Pregnancy
I closed my eyes.
Of all the things my nine-year-old daughter could have said, that was the one question nobody in my family had ever been brave enough to ask.
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But Nora wasn’t finished.
“She didn’t stop there, Annie.”
My heart began pounding.
“What else did she say?”
“She asked why everyone kept telling you that family supports family when nobody supported you.”
I couldn’t breathe.
For more than a year, my parents had repeated those exact words to me.
Family supports family.
They had used them to pressure me into accepting Ryan and Lina.
They had told me to forgive.
They had told me to move on.
