I felt a tear slip down my cheek. “And all I know is that my mother died alone except for me and a family friend. If my father loved her so much, why did he not lift a finger to get her the best of treatments?” “Now that I don’t know the answer to,” said Birdie. “But, if you recall, at the time, he’d been married to someone else for more than sixteen years. He, and Judith, had just learned that he had another child, one your mother had kept from him all those years. I said
