as sitting in her little living room. With a cup of tea getting

she stood up to respond. James's first wife, Olivia, was standing th

asked, moving aside to allow her

o Maria's house walked into the warm house with stiff steps and a

orted Olivia into the living room and they sat face to

why James gave you the foundation. W

r hurt Olivia or stir up their already dying quarel, Maria inhaled deeply. James was aware of my passion for the char

e said. "It simply seemed like an act of betrayal to me. You receiv

complicated relationship with James, I I'll never regret it because I was deeply in love with him and while I w

's time for both of us to accept his choices. Regardles

ir own thoughts. Gradually, the emotional burden less

uld have some information: his father's former office. When he arrived, it was late at night, and the building was largely empty. He entered the

e big wooden desk and started pulling out drawers. He discovered bank repor

ted. He said to himself, i know you were keeping something in

e ribbon; Raymond untied the ribbon and started reading; the letters were intimate, revealing a side of his father that Raymond had never known. "Dear Eleanor," one of the letters started, "I think about you and

as as if someone had punched him in the stomach. After all those years of

ys seen and thought of as a perfect man had been an imperfect man, a guy of complications and secrets. But perh

t he had found, but there was still so much to work out. As he departed the office,He experienced

oversaw, In an attempt to close the distance that had grown between

met him at the door. It's nice t

the benefit of the family as well as the foundation. We have a gr

together in her gaze. "I concur. It's time

he building and t

time. Perhaps, just possibly, they could find a way to mend the wounds of the past

thing new because in an unexpected the sec