Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

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“Ava can we please talk?” mother pleads when I move to leave.

I stare at her, not sure what she wanted. What was there to talk about? Hasn’t everything already been said and done?

“There isn’t anything for us to talk about, Mother” I insist.

Looking back, I see now how I made a distinction when it came to her and father. While Emma and Travis referred to them as mom and dad, to me they were Father and Mother. Clean, cut and completely impersonal.

I never truly acknowledged them as my parents, because deep down I just knew. Parents don’t hate their children. Parents don’t neglect their child and treat them like shit. I made what I called them impersonal because on a spiritual level, I didn’t consider them my parents.

you” she pleads with

seen her direct at me. Her face was

Martha, Rowan’s mom asks Corrine while

it was known that the Sharp family weren’t my biggest fan even

she links their hands and pulls her away

direction.

you won’t leave me alone until you’ve said

adore this woman back in my younger days. When I was around five or six. That quickly changed when I realized that she didn’t feel the same way. It

in hers. I pull them away. Not wanting her to touch me.

sorry, Ava. More than you’ll ever

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of saying anything, I keep quiet. I always imagined this moment. Always day dreamed of her apologizing to me, then pulling me into her arms. I used to crave it. Pray

of embracing you, I pushed you away. You loved me, loved us, but we gave you nothing but scorn. I wish more than anything that I could go back in

your value. Never acknowledged that you’re the best daughter anyone can have. It took almost losing you to realize how much you