“That’s the part you still can’t understand, even now.

She has a mother who provides everything she needs.

She has a home where she is completely safe and completely loved.

She does not know who you are — she has never once asked me about a father, because her life has never had a father-shaped hole in it for her to notice.

And she does not need one now who appears for the first time at a wedding, seven years late, because seeing her happy without him bruised his ego.”

Chapter 18 — The Fine Print