It's not that easy, Peter. [The way he talks about it... It sounds like a fairytale. A bittersweet story about love and forgiveness... One of those tales that ends once the person is gone, so you never have to see the pain that they leave in their wake.]

What he did was selfish, and if it took dying to realize that he was wrong, then he realized it too late. I don't want to forgive him. I don't want to spend time with him. I'm not interested in torturing myself--or my daughter--for the sake of his happy ending. This was his mistake. Why should we have to keep suffering for it?

All I wanted was for him to just... go away. Him and his memory, to just leave us alone. So... please. Stop trying to force him back into my life. I don't want him there anymore.