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.

her legs

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them both, but his gaze remained fixed on Julia across the table, as if she were the

was Franklin’s “urgent matter.” And this was the daughter she had carried for ten months, nearly losing her life to bring into

She stood there watching. After a while, she withdrew her

away.

had been her girlhood dream, yet he

married her. In the past, she had naively believed that

seven

and instructing Auntie Sara to give them to Franklin, Maggie dragged her suitcase to the car and told the driver, “To the airport.”

the evening

father’s clothes, moving sluggishly as she got out of the car. Because her

to spend time with her and her father, and

back tonight, mother would surely

was still worried and said glumly, “Dad, what if mom insists on coming with us

Franklin said with certainty.

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although Maggie had always tried to find ways to spend more time with him,

dare upset him..

to Franklin. Since he said she wouldn’t,

gloom disappeared as she bounced into the house, telling Auntie Sara she

Maggie’s instructions, handed the envelope to

took it, casually asking,

returned home at noon. Didn’t you