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"This is Daddy!" she would say repeatedly, pointing to my image. "Daddy loves

you very

much!"

As Lily grew, Olivia continued to fill the void left by my absence. She never spoke

ill of me,

never let Lily see her disappointment or anger at my neglect.

I watched Olivia's tears of joy as Lily spoke her first word: "Mama." Any mother would have

been content with that achievement, but Olivia was determined that Lily would know her

father too.

She continued showing Lily my picture, teaching her to say "Daddy!" with tireless patience

until Lily finally learned the word.

"Daddy loves Lily very much," Olivia would explain gently, "but Daddy is very busy, so he hasn't

come back to accompany Lily."

Lily, a blank slate eager to please, would echo her mother's words: "Daddy loves Lily! Lily loves

Daddy!"

throat tightened as I watched Olivia buying gifts, clothes, and toys for Lily in

our daughter, telling her

gifts and sweetly saying,

a silver

responsibilities as a

Because of her daily reinforcement,

of me

particular memory surfaced-one I had almost forgotten. Lily, having just learned

for me at the Stone Residence Entrance one evening when

her tiny legs carrying her toward me as fast as they

up at

said softly, her arms raised in

softened something in me. From then on, I had started noticing

when I visited

had always thought that moment was coincidental-that Lily happened to be there when I arrived. But the surveillance revealed the truth: she had waited at the door

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87. Painful

hoping I would

+8 Points)

to return to Imperial Gardens not just for Olivia,

Emma. Their hardships abroad

Olivia, rekindling old feelings and

her to get along with Emma. I envisioned them as playmates,

had ended in disaster. I watched the footage of that day with

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