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Chapter 24 - Daniel’s apology
After release, Daniel asked to write Rosie.
I let her therapist decide whether to present the option.
Rosie was seven by then.
She said:
“No.”
So no.
A year later:
“Maybe.”
Daniel wrote:
You were hurt because adults were protecting secrets that had nothing to do with you. I should have stopped everything the moment I knew Bethany had frightened you. Instead I worried about myself.
That was the part that mattered.
He did not say:
I’m sorry if.
He did not say:
We all made mistakes.
He named his own.
May you like
Rosie did not answer.
She was allowed not to.
