The Final Appraisal at the Lake House Before the Family Reckoning

don’t decorate it.”

Diane nodded.

“I was cruel to you.”

“Yes.”

Diane flinched, but she accepted it.

“I treated you like you were beneath me.”

“Yes.”

“I think I did that because if you mattered, then I had failed to matter where I should have.”

Ruth said nothing.

Diane wiped her cheek.

“I’m not asking to stay.”

“I know.”

“I’m asking if my father was happy.”

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