After Three Years In My Bakery He Tried To Sell It Behind My Back

had treated me as a disappointment for reasons that said more about him than about me. That he was sorry he pushed me. Sorry he laughed. Sorry he had taught other people in the family that laughing at me was acceptable.

He did not expect forgiveness. He was asking for the chance, someday, to apologize in person.

I put the letter in a drawer.

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