My Parents Took the $22,000 Hawaii Trip I Paid For

she had not been invited to understand.

“I love her,” she said.

“I know.”

Her eyes filled suddenly.

“I do.”

“I believe you.”

“But?”

“But love that has to be obeyed feels like a cage.”

She wiped under one eye angrily.

“I don’t know how to do this.”

That was the first honest thing Megan had said to me in years.

Maybe ever.

I could have softened.

The old Claire would continue reading …