The Heart I Gave The Love I Lost

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Much later, she went out. She wandered aimlessly through this country that felt both

strange and familiar.

Near noon, she remembered she had arranged to have lunch with Franklin.

Recalling the morning’s conversation, just as she was debating whether to go home to pick up their daughter, she suddenly received a message from Franklin: [Something urgent came up, lunch canceled.]

Maggie looked at it without surprise.

Because she was used to it. In Franklin’s heart, whether it was business or meeting friends… anything was more important than his wife.

Plans made with her could be canceled at his whim.

He never considered her feelings.

Was she disappointed? Perhaps she would have been before.

Now she was numb to it.

Maggie felt even more lost. She had come here so eagerly, only to receive cold treatment from both her husband and daughter.

Without realizing it, she had driven to the restaurant where she and Franklin had dined many times before.

Just as she was about to enter, she saw Franklin, Julia, and Isabella inside the restaurant.

Julia sat intimately beside her daughter.

she played with the little girl. Her daughter swung her legs happily, playing around with Julia,

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served them both, but his gaze remained fixed on Julia across the

carried for ten months, nearly losing her life to

a

away.

papers. He had been her girlhood dream, yet

master’s pressure, he would never have married her. In the past, she had

had slapped her hard across the face. Almost seven years had passed. It was time to wake up.

the divorce papers in an envelope and instructing Auntie Sara to give them to Franklin, Maggie dragged her suitcase to the car and told

past nine in the evening when father

out of the car. Because her mother was here, she actually hadn’t wanted to come home tonight.

Aunt Julie said her mother had come specifically to spend time with her and her

tonight, mother would

she had reluctantly agreed to return. But she was still worried and said glumly, “Dad, what if mom

won’t,” Franklin said with certainty.

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find ways to spend more time

upset

always been very obedient to Franklin. Since he

lifted, and her previous gloom disappeared as she bounced

instructions, handed the envelope to

took it, casually asking, “Where

returned home at noon.