When I Was Four, My Mother Left Me Alone in a Church—Twenty Years Later She Returned Crying, “We Need You”

Then curiosity won.

Inside:

Nora, we know we do not deserve what you are doing. We want this to be the beginning of bringing our family back together. Your room is waiting. We kept some of your things. When Hannah is well, we want all of us together again. Please come home.

I read it twice.

Not because it moved me.

Because I could not believe they still did not understand.

My room?