Still, I agreed to go.
On Sunday morning, we set off.
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My father was unusually quiet in the car. Sometimes he glanced at me, then quickly turned his attentionforest?”
She smiled sadly.
“Because I thought that once you learned the truth, you’d never call me Mom again.”
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I hugged her.
“You’ve given me nineteen years of a mother’s love. No truth could ever change that.”
That evening, the three of us returned to the forest.
My father stopped beside the old bench.
I took his hand.
“Dad, remember how frightened I was when you told me to come closer so you could kiss me?”
He lowered his head.
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“Yes. And I’m
deeply sorry that I scared you like that.”
I smiled.
“Now I understand why you were so emotional.”
That day, when my father grabbed my hand in the forest and said, “Finally, we’re alone. Come here, let me kiss you,” I was terrified. I thought his strange behavior was hiding something unforgivable.