Five Minutes After Our Divorce Became Final, My Husband Said, “Take the Girls. I Have a Son Coming Now”—Hours Later, He Finally Learned What I Really Did in the Army

I want them to know I was wrong.

That belonged between him and them.

I did not answer the letter.

PART 54 — HIS LETTERS TO THE GIRLS

I allowed them.

Subject to the usual correctional rules and our parenting arrangements.

I did not read every word once the girls were old enough for appropriate privacy.

At first Nora refused to answer.

Sophie did.

Then Nora began sending short notes.