Chapter 12 - THE APOLOGY THAT TOOK A YEARMargaret’s first written apology was awful.
I’m sorry I didn’t understand your background.
No.
Second:
I’m sorry I made assumptions about your financial situation.
Still centered money.
Then nearly a year after the sidewalk:
Claire, I treated you as though a woman who brought less money into marriage had less authority in her own home.
Better.
I believed Daniel’s income gave me the right to rank your contribution.
Yes.
I ignored the work of raising Nora because it did not look like the kind of work I respected.
Good.
I then helped Stephen use your name in a transaction you did not authorize because I valued saving my sons’ company more than your consent.
Hard.
Accurate.
Then:
I threw you and Nora out because I wanted to control what you could learn and because I believed you were easier to remove than my sons were to confront.
That line hurt.
Because it was true.
Finally:
May you like
Learning that you are Jonathan Westbridge’s daughter did not make what I did wrong. It was wrong when I believed you had nothing.
That was the sentence I kept.
