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.

daughter swung her legs happily, playing around with Julia, leaning over to eat pastries that Julia had bitten.

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smiled as he served them both, but his gaze remained fixed on Julia across the table, as if

Franklin’s “urgent matter.” And this was the daughter she had carried for

smiled. She stood there watching. After a while, she withdrew her gaze and turned

away.

prepared divorce papers. He had been her girlhood dream, yet he had

she had naively believed that if

across the face. Almost seven

to Franklin, Maggie dragged her suitcase to the car

in the evening when father and daughter

her father’s clothes, moving sluggishly as she got out of the car. Because her mother was here, she actually hadn’t wanted to come

her mother had come specifically to spend time with her and her father, and they would make her sad if

come back tonight, mother would surely follow them

still worried and said glumly, “Dad,

said with certainty.

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their marriage years, although Maggie had always tried to find ways to spend more time with him, she was still sensible

upset him..

Franklin. Since he said she wouldn’t, then

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

Maggie’s instructions, handed the envelope to Franklin, “Sir, Madam asked me to give this to you.”

it, casually asking,

home at noon. Didn’t