I began to cry.
“Then why have you never told me?”
“Because Margaret has raised you
since you were two months old. She loved you as if you were her own child.”
I sat down on the bench.
My father continued:
“Before Catherine died, she had one final wish. She wanted me to bring you here when you turned nineteen.”
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“Why here?”
My father pointed toward the clearing.
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“Because this is where we first met. And right beside this bench, I asked her to marry me.”
I looked at the ring.
“Is that her wedding ring?”
“Yes.”