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I called him again and again. No answer. I convinced myself he was just angry. That he needed time. That blood would win in the end.
I wore my nicest blouse. I brought dessert. I told myself this was reconciliation.
It wasn’t.
And then he said it.
“My family comes as a package,” he told me, his voice steady. “If you decided my oldest daughter isn’t your family, then you don’t deserve the others either.”
He went on. Calm. Final.
I left their house in tears, my dessert untouched on the table.

I feel betrayed by my son. He let me live a lie for fourteen years. And now he’s cutting me off from the two grandchildren who are my blood.
But in the silence, a question keeps haunting me:
And if so… is it too late to fix what I broke?