He wrote that he had watched his son become a man who expected comfort without noticing who provided it.

He confessed that he had encouraged Gordon’s entitlement by making excuses for him as a boy.

He had also failed to intervene when Beverly treated me harshly.

I should have spoken up earlier, he wrote.

A gift cannot repair what I allowed, but it can give you the freedom to choose something better.

There was another paragraph I had forgotten reading the first time, years earlier.

I have explained to Beverly that her future is protected within the trust’s rules.