When I Was Four, My Mother Left Me Alone in a Church—Twenty Years Later She Returned Crying, “We Need You”
Eventually stopped asking me to understand how desperate he had been.
That was improvement.
But some relationships do not become close just because the person who hurt you changes.
Change may make contact possible.
It does not create an obligation to offer intimacy.
I met him occasionally.
That was enough for me.
When he died years later, I grieved.
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