Not abandonment by distance alone, but abandonment by emotional convenience. You had wanted harmony more than truth because truth would have demanded that you stop calling your absences necessary. You crawled forward on the rug until you were close enough to gather Daniela too, and for a second she resisted. Then she broke open in your arms with the devastating force only a child’s delayed trust can have.
Rosa turned away slightly to give you dignity.
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