a decision that would haunt her for the rest of her life.
She left.
“She believed you would have a better future with me,” my father explained. “She thought I could give you everything she couldn’t.”
I stared at him.
“So she didn’t abandon me because she didn’t love me?”
He shook his head.
“No. She left because she believed she was holding you back.”
My father paused before revealing something even more heartbreaking.
She had never truly gone far.
After leaving, my mother found a job at my school.
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