to withhold information that might help her understand her own history and tendencies?
As darkness settled over the water, I reached a decision.
Tomorrow, after collecting my mother from the airport, we would drive directly to Jonathan’s office to retrieve the safety deposit box contents.
Together, Helen and I would review my father’s letter and the evidence he’d compiled.
Only then—with full understanding of what my father had preserved, and why—would I decide what constituted my final maternal obligation to the daughter who had rejected me.
Whatever that decision might
