I think forgiveness is probably less dramatic than people expect.”
“What does that mean?”
“I don’t trust her. I don’t want her in our lives. But I don’t want to carry her decision every day either.”
I nodded.
“That sounds reasonable.”
“She asked whether I hated her.”
“What did you say?”
“No.”
“Do you?”
– No.
She looked at me.
“I spent too much time letting silence decide what our lives meant. I don’t want to give silence that much power anymore.”
That sentence stayed with me.
A week later, I
