"Why did they send you away, Charlie? Why couldn't you have stayed here and lived with us?"
"I always wondered about that. Every time I asked her, she always said it was for your own good."
"In a way she was right." She shook her head. "She sent you away because of me, didn't she?"
"Oh, Charlie, why did it have to be? Why did all this happen to us?" I didn't know what to tell her.
I wished I could say that like the House of Atreus or Cadmus
we were suffering for the sins of our forefathers, or fulfilling an ancient Greek oracle.
But I had no answers for her, or for myself. "It's past," I said.
"I'm glad I met you again. It makes it a little easier."
She grabbed my arm suddenly. "Charlie, you don't know what I've been through all these years with her."
"The apartment, this street, my job. It's all been a nightmare, coming home each day,"
"wondering if she's still here, if she's harmed herself, guilty for thinking about things like that."
I stood up and let her rest against my shoulder, and she wept.
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