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Chapter 20 - THE FIRST TIME LILY CHOSE HIMLily was seven when she asked Nathan to attend father-daughter night at school.

She had never asked before.

He nearly cried.

He wore a suit.

I made him change.

“It’s a school gym.”

He changed into jeans.

Still too expensive.

Acceptable.

When he arrived, Lily ran toward him.

“Daddy!”

This time there was no shock.

No hockey stick.

No secret.

No adults freezing around them.

Just a child calling her father.

Nathan lifted her.

Then looked at me over her shoulder.

I smiled.

Five years earlier, that word had detonated our lives.

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Now it was ordinary.

That was healing.

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