Her hair had started to grow again.
Very short.
Soft.
He touched it with some insecurity.
“Do I look horrible?”
Real estate market
I looked at her.
For four years I had imagined returning home and finding the same woman I had left behind.
But in front of me there was a different person.
Someone who had survived eleven months of illness, neglect, fear and loneliness.
I walked up and kissed her on the forehead.
“No.”
My voice broke.
“You seem like the strongest person in this whole family.”
Clara started crying.
And then me too.
The settlement money helped.
But it wasn’t what saved us.
People and society
Money was the reason I left.
The money had been the reason I worked to almost destroy myself.
Money had been the reason Vivian and Derek thought they could control everything.
In the end, the most important thing that Canada costume was not a million dollars.
