A Woman Humiliated My Eight-Year-Old Daughter at Her Birthday Party—Then Threatened to Reveal Who Her “Real Father” Was
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Chapter 26 - The yacht
Two years after Sabine shoved Ellie, I considered selling the yacht.
Ellie objected.
“Why?”
“Bad memories.”
“It’s a boat.”
“Yes.”
“Sabine is bad memory.”
Fair.
We kept it.
Then Ellie asked to have her tenth birthday there.
Small party.
Six friends.
Rebecca.
My sister.
No business partners.
No investors.
No transaction announcement.
No Sabine.
At one point Ellie dropped a gift near the same section of artificial grass.
She bent down.
Paused.
Then picked it up.
Nobody touched her.
She opened it.
Inside was a ridiculous stuffed octopus almost as large as she was.
She laughed.
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A place does not belong permanently to what happened there.
Sometimes children reclaim it before adults do.
