Raphael approached and tenderly dabbed at her tears with a tissue.

Softly, he inquired, “Are you thinking about your mother?”

Setting aside the photo album she found in her parents’ home, Elissa composed herself.

She nodded, her voice heavy with grief.

“I can’t shake the thought.

If I had persuaded my mother to stay that day, would things have turned out differently?”

Raphael knelt beside her, tenderly placing a hand on her belly.

After a pause, he spoke up softly.

“But if she had stayed, she might have lived her whole Life in resentment and anger, never finding true closure, let alone happiness.

her decision, but what’s done is done, and we can’t

It’s not your fault.

don’t blame

her gaze

moment before tears

thought persisted that she could

embrace as they

parents gone, they both understood the

sobbed softly, her voice choked

still hurts,”

offered soothing words of

in his embrace was his wife, and they were meant to

unable to sleep, ventured to their

tears,

sternness, he

that he,

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