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

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She helped me clean.

At midnight, after she went to bed, I sat in the living room with Walter’s head on my foot and thought about forgiveness.

People talk about forgiveness like it is a door.

Open or closed.

You forgive or you don’t.

You let them in or keep them out.

That is too simple.

Forgiveness, I was learning, is more like a house with many rooms.

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