Lindsey bit her lip, a hint of self-derision in her smile.

“I should choose a partner of equal standing? But what kind of family background do I have? Dad’s cutting ties with me.

And you.

Didn’t you abandon me a long time ago?”

Her words struck a painful chord in Juanita, and the mood in the room instantly turned cold.

Juanita’s fists clenched as she said, “Linds, I never abandoned you.

Remember when I asked if you wanted to leave with me? You chose to stay with your father.

Do you remember what you said back then?”

Lindsey hung her head, her lips pressed tightly together.

She remembered the harsh words she had said to her mother—

“I won’t go with you.

You left Dad because he had nothing.

Your love for money is all I see.

How can you love me? I refuse to be Like you! Pretend you never had a daughter like me, and I’ll do the same about having a mother like you!”

grew older, Lindsey came to understand her

prestigious family, while her father was once a man of modest

with her mother

achieved something, he found he could no longer tolerate her

grew weary of people labeling him a man who

adamantly seek a divorce from

this, Lindsey felt pain in

struggled to catch

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all that, I never held it against

eyes brimmed

hadn’t

apart from her daughter for so long,

you in the

You would hang up the phone as soon as

stopped answering my calls

all contact

for you

wasn’t until I saw you in the trending news that

curled her fingers

to look up at her mother, whose heart she

her tears at bay, not

always be your

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