Chapter 17 - The Letter Daniel Wrote
Two years after the hospital, Daniel wrote me a letter.
He admitted what he had done.
Not everything.
But enough.
He wrote that he had spent his life believing a son would prove something about him.
Legacy.
Strength.
Success.
He admitted that Margaret's obsession with the Whitmore name had shaped him.
But he also wrote:
None of that excuses me.
That sentence mattered.
Not because it repaired anything.
It didn't.
But because it was the first sentence I had ever heard from Daniel that didn't blame someone else.
He asked whether Lily might someday know him without knowing only his worst moment.
May you like
I answered with one sentence.
That will depend on the man you choose to become.
