Following is the continuing read-along excerpt for stop #83 on the Owlet blog tour. Enjoy!
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Iris watched as her younger self crawled out from underneath
the gazebo and walked up its stairs, coming to stand beside her
mother and look out at the trees with her. Iris’ white blonde
hair was a stark contrast to her mother’s. “You have to
understand his side of what happened, dear. Can’t you forgive
him?”
“No,” the younger Iris answered stubbornly. And as her older
counterpart watched, she noticed that the Iris she was watching
was even shorter than the first, so much younger. “Well, maybe.
I don’t know. I just don’t understand.”
“Then learn to understand, my dear. Learn his side and see if
you can put yourself in his position.”
“What is his side?”
“You have to ask him that.”
“I am scared. Can’t you help me understand first?”
“I can help you but then you have to ask him. Okay? Let him know
you are willing to forgive him because if you don’t tell him
then he will never know. It is like my love for you. I always
tell you that I love you because I want you to know, and if I
never told you then how would you?”
“I guess I wouldn’t. I will tell him I MIGHT forgive him.”
Ha, the stubborn child. Been there, done that. Its so hard because when your young those first betrayals are hard to believe, hard to forgive and hard to trust again. I can't count how many people I know and have heard throw the "Well, you lied about a lot of things, like SANTA." at their parents during fights about lying.
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