For Years I Resented the Homeless Boy My Mother Fed. After Her Funeral, He Revealed the Secret She Had Kept From Me.

Inside were two pages in Mom’s handwriting, dated almost a year before her stroke.

My dear Abigail, she began.

There are things I should have told you when you were little.

I kept putting them off because I was afraid you would be angry.

Now I see that my silence may have made your anger grow.

She wrote about Dad’s illness, the tapes and Gabriel.