history.
That information helped his doctors understand part of what they were
treating.
Mark could not give Noah seventeen lost years back.
But even after death, he gave him something useful.
PART 36
Thomas asked to meet me six months later.
I agreed once.
He apologized.
Not the kind that begins with “if.”
Not the kind that explains itself away.
He said:
“I decided I knew what was best for my son. I stole his choice.”
I looked at him.
“Yes.”
He cried.
I did not comfort him.
Some apologies deserve to be heard without being rewarded.
PART 37
Noah eventually chose to maintain limited contact with Thomas.
That was his decision.
Rebecca remained in his life.
That was also his decision.
I learned something important.
You can tell a young person the truth without demanding they adopt your
enemies.
Noah loved his mother.
He also became angry with her.
Both were his to manage.
