Through intermittent normality.

PART 41 — JULIAN’S SECOND APOLOGY

Two years later, Julian sent a birthday card.

No romance.

No request.

Inside:

I hope you are well.

Then handwritten:

I used to think the cruelest thing I did was shave your hair. It wasn’t. It was teaching you for years that you were overreacting whenever I hurt you.

I read it three times.