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Threatened legal battles.
Suggested custody fights.
Made her believe she would lose everything.
“I didn’t know who to trust,” Mom said quietly. “I was young. I was alone.”
Tears filled her eyes.
“I thought if Mark knew about you, his parents would never stop coming after us.”
“So you told him I was gone?” I asked.
She nodded.
The pain in her face was impossible to ignore.
“I thought it was the only way to protect you.”
Mark looked at me.
“I didn’t know the truth until six months ago,” he said. “Someone from my family finally told me what happened.”
He reached into his pocket and handed me a business card.
“I’m not here to take your mother away from you,” he said. “And I’m not asking you for anything. I just couldn’t let you keep believing I abandoned you.”
Then he turned and walked away.
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