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  • Chapter 19

  • As I walked out of the cemetery, I saw someone I hadn’t expected–my dad. Jackson must have gone

  • to see him, which is how he found out about my mom’s camera. He must have also known that I was

  • back.

  • With a somewhat tentative tone, he asked, “Have you eaten?”

  • I didn’t respond immediately and asked, “What do you want from me?”

  • He hesitated for a moment before speaking, “Could you come home for a while?”

  • I couldn’t hold back a sarcastic laugh. “You’ve always told me to stay away. I’ve followed your

  • wishes, so why now, all of a sudden, do you want me to return?”

  • His voice trembled as he said, “… Your sister is ill. She has cancer.”

  • I froze for a moment, taken aback.

  • “I’ve tried everything… we’ve sold everything we can. You’re her sister. Could you help her?”

  • His face was full of sorrow and regret.

  • I wanted. It wasn’t my choice

  • How could I ever bear to send

  • my reasons.”

  • looked at him quietly, knowing that our past was a tangled mess of misunderstandings. “I know,” I said, not

  • received my college acceptance letter, I’d been so happy, eager to tell him that I was going to follow in my mother’s footsteps and become a doctor. I rushed home, hoping to share the good news, but when I overheard him arguing with my aunt

  • soon too. How are we going to afford it?”

  • her to adulthood.

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  • it’s either her or me

  • ran out, sitting on the street alone for the rest of the afternoon. That entire summer,

  • came for me to report to college, I thought I had everything figured out. It felt like a new beginning, yet my

  • apart again, so you sacrificed me. No matter how much it hurt, you still sent

  • but I interrupted,

  • a terrible father, but you’re also not a good

  • years, he’d sent money into my account from time to

  • right.

  • let it be

  • come looking for

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  • lightness wash over me. All the burdens that had weighed heavily

  • at the flower shop where Joseph had once bought my mother the bird–of–paradise flowers. The owner recognized me, but the shop was almost empty. She was

  • “Where are you moving these to?”

  • closing down! I want to try something

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