I Won a Five-Star Island Vacation

“Did he hurt you too?”

Children see more than adults think.

“Yes,” I whispered.

“Why did you let him?”

The question broke something open in me.

Not because it was cruel.

Because it was honest.

I looked out over the ocean.

“I thought if I was patient enough, kind enough, quiet enough, maybe he would remember how to love us.”

Leo thought about that.

“Did he?”

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