The short letter contained only four simple sentences.

She offered her deepest apologies for the pain she had caused my family.

She expressed her sincere gratitude that I had eventually chosen to believe the truth.

And finally, she shared a memory of something Margaret had once said about me eleven years ago, a comment Florence had carried in her heart ever since.

Margaret had told her: “Jonathan is a profoundly good man; he simply needs someone who is brave enough to tell him the hard truth when he is heading in the wrong direction.”

I let out a soft laugh when I read those words on the paper, and then I cried tears of relief.