became more than a celebration
What should have been an ordinary milestone became a moment of confrontation between the past and the present.
The daughters were celebrating eighteen years of growth.
Their mother was confronting eighteen years of absence.
And their father was standing there as the person who had been with them through it all.
Sometimes life doesn’t give people the opportunity to repair the past.
But it can give them an opportunity to behave differently in the present.
Whether the daughters eventually choose to forgive their mother is
