Chapter 13
Gideon took longer.
He still insisted the cottage plan was practical.
Until I asked:
“Would your future son sleep in the cottage?”
Silence.
There.
Practical arrangements reveal themselves quickly when roles reverse.
He finally admitted:
“No.”
“Why?”
“Because he’d be Lucille’s child.”
Exactly.
Daisy’s displacement was acceptable because she belonged to the marriage before theirs.
Old attachment.
Old wife.
Old child.
Things to be reorganized around the new center.
He had treated family like a corporate merger.
Assets retained.
May you like
Some departments moved.
No.
