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Chapter 12 - MARGARET’S APOLOGIES FAILED UNTIL SHE NAMED THE REAL THINGFirst apology:

I’m sorry I doubted your mother.

Wrong center.

Second:

I’m sorry I misunderstood the fertility situation.

Still wrong.

Third:

I’m sorry I reacted badly because Daniel hid the truth.

No.

Finally:

Lily, I tied your wrists and left you outside in the rain because I believed you were not biologically related to me.

Accurate.

That belief did not give me the right to frighten or punish you.

Yes.

Even if the DNA test had shown no relationship at all, what I did would still have been wrong.

There.

Then:

I treated blood as if it determined who deserved love.

Exactly.

Lily read the letter years later.

Then asked:

“Do I have to forgive her?”

“No.”

May you like

She didn’t.

Not then.

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