“I’m not your biological father.”
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For a moment, I couldn’t even hear the sounds of the restaurant around me.
My father explained that he had loved my mother when they were young. But she had chosen another man, someone who disappeared as soon as he learned she was pregnant.
After I was born, my mother was diagnosed with a serious heart condition. She knew she didn’t have much time left.
One rainy night, she brought me to my father’s home.
“She placed you in my arms and asked me not to let you end up in an orphanage if anything happened to her,” my father said. “The next morning, she was taken to the hospital. She died a few weeks later.”
I had misunderstood Robert’s words. My mother had not abandoned me. She had walked away knowing that she would never return.
