They Spent a Decade Insisting My Children Couldn’t Possibly Be His – Then My Little Girl Pointed at the Grave and Said Four Words No One in That Cemetery Could Argue With

They were people.

They had a mother who had carried every one of those ten years on her back, and a history he had no part in, and characters formed entirely without him.

If Garrett ever wanted to know them — and that was his to want, and theirs to allow, and no report in any envelope could command it — he would have to begin by understanding that.

Not with an assumption of ownership.