Chapter 80

• “When I found out I was pregnant, I told your father. He didn’t believe me, and I felt so humiliated that I left and never contacted him again. We weren’t in a relationship, it was just one night but I thought that if he knew about you, he’d help me. My parents were angry, and it was just you and me. In the beginning things were fine but then my parents died in the tornado that went through their farm and I was alone. I was an only child and I had nobody. I’d always struggled with depression, and I lost my job shortly after they died. You were four and a half and I lost everything. By that time, I’d sold everything I could,” she said and paused.
• “I guess I got that from you,” I said as I looked at her.
• “What?”