“I’m not sure what I did that made it so easy for you to see me as this awful person. But I’m sorry if my reaction to your offer to stay hurt you. But the story is for you. I wanted you to have a proper memorial of your mother. I wanted you to be able to see her as the world saw her and not as the victim of your father. She chose you. She chose love. She was the winner in all ways. She got you. I just wanted you to see that, so hopefully, you could finally mourn her. I wanted you to see yourself the way she saw you and not as some huge cost she had to pay.”
