Chapter 7 - MARGARET’S CRUELTY LOOKED EVEN WORSE AFTER THE DNAMargaret cried when she learned Lily was biologically connected to her after all.
That made me angrier.
She reached toward Lily after supervised family meeting and said:
“My granddaughter.”
I stopped her.
“No.”
Her face changed.
“She is family.”
“She was family yesterday.”
Margaret froze.
Good.
I continued.
“She was family when you thought she had none of your blood.”
Silence.
“You tied her outside.”
“I was wrong.”
“Yes.”
“But now we know—”
“No.”
I shook my head.
“Do not finish that sentence.”
The DNA result did not repair her cruelty.
It exposed it.
She had treated biology as the price of dignity.
Now biology happened to surprise her.
That did not make the story sweeter.
It made her worldview uglier.
If Jonathan had been unrelated to Margaret, Lily still deserved warmth.
If I had conceived through an anonymous donor completely outside the family, still.
If I had cheated—which I had not—Lily still would not deserve punishment for adult conduct.
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A seven-year-old cannot be morally responsible for parentage.
That became the line Margaret had to face.
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