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As his grandfather used to say: hard things are hard.
He knows she’s too young to understand the quality of his devotion—and this is probably for the best. She doesn’t need someone to worship her. She needs someone to love her, clothe her, feed her, teach her right from wrong, someone to set limits and
provide opportunities, someone to believe in her and be her champion. And that person will be Huck. He will be her Unconditional. He will be her No Matter What.
She was a strong woman. She should be falling apart, but instead she had made a list.
One thing Irene has learned in her fifty-seven years is that no matter how hideous something seems at first, with the passing of time comes habituation and then acceptance. What Irene is living through now is abhorrent. But the world is filled with deceptions and betrayals—nearly every life has one—and yet the sun still rises and sets, the world continues on.
There is nowhere to put her fury, no one to answer the question of why.
It’s not necessarily the creature comforts themselves, it’s that someone thinks you deserve them.
