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“Thank you. No one likes when I make jokes about my dead dad. As if he’s not my dead dad to make jokes about.”
“She’s not your child, Mom,” Chloe objects. “She has a mother.” Mrs. Novak waves her off. “A girl can never have too many mothers.”
The sickest part of all of this is the one person I want to comfort me is the reason I need comfort.
She means it. The guilt is eating her alive. This whole time, I’ve been wanting to punish her for what she did. But her own mind has been punishing her more severely than I ever could.
“To Chloe,” he reads. “You are a sister in the truest sense of the word. Without you, I never would’ve written this. Thank you.” His throat bobs as he swallows. He’s already swiping at a tear. And he hasn’t even gotten to his dedication yet. So I read it to him. “To Wes, you are the reason I could write a happy ending.”
