I nodded, understanding in a way I hadn’t before.
“Promise me something,” Grandma said, taking my hand. “Don’t let this break you three apart forever.
Family is too precious for that.”
I couldn’t promise. Not yet. But I vowed something else to myself: never to let anyone I loved be locked out again.
Not by lies, not by silence, and not by the ones they trust most.
Some letters can’t be unwritten. But maybe, with time, we could write a new chapter together.







