Ainsley tore my four-year-old daughter’s locket from her hand and slapped her to the floor.
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Chapter 23 / 27
Chapter 23 - AINSLEY’S LIFE
Ainsley rebuilt.
I learned only because Eira told me.
Event management became operations.
Then nonprofit fundraising.
She lived smaller.
Paid restitution.
Finished bankruptcy.
Stayed out of trouble.
Never married.
Not because she spent life mourning me.
She dated.
Relationships ended.
Normal.
At fifty-three she gave a public talk about financial secrecy and shame through a nonprofit program.
I did not watch.
Eira did.
“She was good.”
“Good.”
“You okay with that?”
“Yes.”
People are allowed to become better without returning to the people they hurt.
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That is not hypocrisy.
It is the point of accountability.
