My Sister Refused To Open Dad’s Casket, And The Reason Made The Whole Church Scream.
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Chapter 16
Claire wrote from prison a year later.
Alicia screened the letter first.
Then Dad read it.
Then me.
Olivia,
I know you think I am a monster. I was tired of being the responsible one. Dad trusted me with everything but never loved me the way he loved you. You got softness. I got expectations.
I did terrible things.
But you don’t know what it felt like being invisible unless someone needed something.
Claire
I read it twice.
Then placed it down.
Dad looked devastated.
“She still made it about being unseen.”
“Yes.”
“Did I make her feel that way?”
“Maybe,” I said. “But you did not make her poison you.”
He nodded slowly.
That distinction mattered.
May you like
Pain explains.
It does not excuse.
