"When I asked about you, I was told that you were my cousin."
She sat there, quieted by his admission.
She then pondered why such a thing would be said, and imagined what it must have been like for him to meet her and realize that for all of these years he was lied to. Had he not remembered the time they played together in the yard, kicking over mushrooms and digging for dinosaur fossils? Well of course he had. He just thought it was his cousin he was playing with.
The silence was uncomfortable. Both of them sat there, equally disturbed. She felt rejected, he felt deceived.
This is the consequence of a father's denial of his infidelity. Lies perpetuate the cycle of mistakes, and brothers and sisters sit together, bonded by the pain or repelled by the truth.
-For all of my brothers and sisters, with love.
She sat there, quieted by his admission.
She then pondered why such a thing would be said, and imagined what it must have been like for him to meet her and realize that for all of these years he was lied to. Had he not remembered the time they played together in the yard, kicking over mushrooms and digging for dinosaur fossils? Well of course he had. He just thought it was his cousin he was playing with.
The silence was uncomfortable. Both of them sat there, equally disturbed. She felt rejected, he felt deceived.
This is the consequence of a father's denial of his infidelity. Lies perpetuate the cycle of mistakes, and brothers and sisters sit together, bonded by the pain or repelled by the truth.
-For all of my brothers and sisters, with love.
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