It was as if he was presenting a solution.
As if the amount is large enough, all questions can be pushed aside.
At first I thought the worst part was what Emma was prepared to do.
Then I realized how scary the lie was before him.
To convince a child who had just become an adult that his refusal would kill his mother.
To call this a volunteer.
Asking the mother to accept money and keep quiet.
There was the real chasm between us.
I couldn’t close it with thirty years of memories.
I couldn’t let her define our whole lives in the future.
We had to start living on the other side.
The new beginning
When Emma was accepted to study, we went to dinner.
Not in an expensive restaurant.
In a small place she liked because she had wooden tables and nice potatoes.
We talked about the dorm.
