While I Was Gone
“I am only sorry that you are in any way touched or affected by all this business, which is so unrelated to you, finally. It is unfair. It seems unfair to me too. What Ifind myself hoping is that at some point your deep admiration for Jean will, not diminish, but be tempered enough by time and experience to allow you to consider the possibility that despite her understandable shock and anger at what’s happened, she is simply wrong about Eli Maybew.
That he did in fact say to me what I reported t...o the police he said to me. That he did in fact do the thing he said he did, which was, in moment of rage and passion and deep hurt, to kill someone dear to me, someone whose very sweetness and gaiety and affection were, I think, a kind of torment to him.
This is a long story, Sadie, and perhaps one I should have told you.
It’s never been clear to me encactly what you girls need to know of my past, or your father’s past, what stories are the right ones to tell and what are better kept private.MoreLess
That he did in fact say to me what I reported t...o the police he said to me. That he did in fact do the thing he said he did, which was, in moment of rage and passion and deep hurt, to kill someone dear to me, someone whose very sweetness and gaiety and affection were, I think, a kind of torment to him.
This is a long story, Sadie, and perhaps one I should have told you.
It’s never been clear to me encactly what you girls need to know of my past, or your father’s past, what stories are the right ones to tell and what are better kept private.MoreLess
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