pte

weeks, unsure if I shoul

d, I chose to

rried again, but I did

ooks and a solid background

en it was too late to consider abortion, b

mom saw me, sh

hind me, looki

said, "Mom, i

d about

d not

me tightly, whispering, "It's okay. If he won't be there

me to go to the hospital for an abortion. But her reacti

her own story from

r spoke of my father was because he,

ut my grandparents were very stri

lding a house, and one of the worker

d delicious treats, telling her about

, Mom fel

advantage of her, and then

lly had already begun to show. Only then di

and insisted she

dn't bear to

t, she secre

e blamed herself, saying, "All these years, I've wanted to go back and

ising me alone all these years. Now it was cle

d her to g

lly, sh

ur village to vi

air turned white from age. The three of the

en looking for her. They had even bough

, Mom sold our old house,

ke what Brenden had said before

ed a faint hop

wn, it might just b