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to our attorney because the no-contact order still stood. The envelope was not opened by us. Our attorney read enough to say it contained “language of apology mixed with blame.”

That sounded exactly like Vanessa.

I told him to destroy it.

I did not need her apology. More importantly, Emma did not need it. We had spent years learning that healing did not continue reading …