At Sunday dinner, Dad told 23 relatives: “She’s wo…

She wrote that she did not expect forgiveness, that she did not deserve it, but that she wanted me to know she was truly, genuinely sorry for who she had been and what she had done.

I read the letter three times. Then I wrote back. Not forgiveness, not yet, but acknowledgment, an opening, a possibility.

We started exchanging emails, short ones at first,continue reading …