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“Did he hurt you too?”
Children see more than adults think.
“Yes,” I whispered.
“Why did you let him?”
The question broke something open in me.
Not because it was cruel.
Because it was honest.
I looked out over the ocean.
“I thought if I was patient enough, kind enough, quiet enough, maybe he would remember how to love us.”
Leo thought about that.
“Did he?”
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