For most of her life, it had represented fear.
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Now it represented something else.
A woman who had been frightened.
A woman whose body had changed.
A woman who had gone swimming afterward.
Who returned to her garden.
Who danced at her daughter’s wedding.
Who lived.
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And maybe that was what Dad had finally learned too.
Loving someone does not mean deciding which truths they are strong enough to see.
Sometimes love means standing beside them while they look directly at the thing that scares them.
And staying there while they decide for themselves what it means.
