Six months later, my father pleaded guilty to multiple financial charges.
The medication case involving Grandma remained unresolved.
There was evidence of tampering.
Not enough to prove who did it.
Dad denied involvement until the end.
Maybe I will never know.
I had to learn to live with that.
People think closure means obtaining every answer.
Sometimes closure is accepting that unanswered questions are not invitations to keep destroying yourself.
My mother testified against him regarding the financial coverups.
They divorced.
She did something I never expected.
At fifty-eight, Evelyn Prescott enrolled in university again.
Not for a full graduate program.
Not initially.
One advanced mathematics seminar.
She sent me a photograph of the registration page.
I stared at it for a long time before replying.
Proud of you.
She responded:
Trying to be proud of myself.
Marisa built a career without Dad’s money.
Aunt Cora became the family member who hosted holidays.
