He Told Three Different Lies So No One Would Check on My Son. Then His Own Children Found the Note on the Fridge

“People can do terrible things and be truly sorry afterward.

But being sorry doesn’t mean the people they hurt have to trust them again.

Forgiving someone and handing them your safety back are two completely different things.

I’m working on the first one.

I’m never doing the second.”

He thought about that.

“If I ever need you again,” he said, not quite looking at me, “will you really come?”

“Even from the other side of the country.”