Chapter 36 Why Are You Apologizing?

• [Dorothy]
• I feel bad for Dad Mateo, but it was not my place to intervene. I couldn’t even imagine twenty-three years of betrayal, so I’m out of their issue. I couldn’t blame Mom Amelia for being harsh. I was not there to see how she endured his betrayal.
• The elevator ascended in a deadbeat silence. I realized the relevance of certain scenes in the movie where the director had to use slow-motion to emphasize an emotion. Right now, if we were in a movie, then this moment must be done in slow-motion; no matter how hard we try to pull the hands of time, it wouldn’t budge.