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Three months later, "The Art of Living" hit bookstores worldwide. The publisher had scheduled a modest release, expecting maybe 50,000 copies sold over the first year.They were completely unprepared for what happened.The memoir sold 500,000 copies in the first week.Within a month, it was translated into forty-seven languages. Within two months, it was required reading in social work programs across twelve countries. Within three months, it had inspired seventeen new foundations modeled after ours."You're a phenomenon," my publicist said during a video call. "We've got interview requests from Oprah, The Today Show, 60 Minutes. International press wants to do stories. Universities want you for lectures.""I can't do all that," I said, panic rising. "I can barely remember what day it is.""We'll work around your limitations," Hope assured me, sitting beside me during the call. "Short interviews, carefully managed appearances, lots of support.""What if I forget what the book is about
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The mystery of "the child who will change everything" consumed our family for weeks. Everyone had theories."It has to be Aurora," Kai insisted during Sunday dinner. "She's the first child born after the foundation went international. That timing means something.""But Aurora has no abilities," Sarah pointed out. "How would she change everything?""Maybe that's exactly how," Isabella suggested. "What if the child who changes everything is the one who proves you don't need abilities to make a difference?"Hope said nothing, just watched Aurora color at the children's table, completely unaware of the speculation around her.Meanwhile, I was racing against time with the memoir. The publisher wanted it completed by my seventy-ninth birthday – six months away. My hands were getting shakier, my vision blurrier. I could feel my body wearing out."You're working too hard," Hope said, finding me at my desk at 3 AM again."I have to finish it.""Why? The memoir will still matter if you take bre
Ex Wife to The Billionaire, Mother to His Twins Heir Chapter 89
Six months after starting the memoir, I called a family meeting. Not for foundation business or crisis management, but for something more important: sharing Lily's letters with everyone she'd written to."Why now?" Kai asked as the family gathered in our living room. At fifty-three, he'd grown into the wise protector Lily had predicted."Because I've been reading Grandma Lily's letters alone, but they weren't meant just for me. She wrote to all of you."The room filled with murmurs. Solana and Isabella exchanged glances. Marcus looked stunned. Even the grandchildren leaned forward with interest."Lily wrote letters to people she never met?" Sarah asked."Dozens of them. She saw the future clearly enough to write personal messages to each of you, by name, decades before you were born."I laid out the organized letters on the coffee table. Each envelope had a name written in Lily's elegant script: Kai, Solana, Isabella, Hope, Marcus, Elena, even baby Lily – now fifteen – and the younges
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Three months into writing the memoir, I hit my first major obstacle: how to write about Marcus without either demonizing him or minimizing the pain he'd caused."I can't figure out how to tell the truth without making him look irredeemable," I said to Hope during one of our afternoon writing sessions."What does Lily's letter say? There must be one about Marcus."I flipped through the organized letters until I found one marked "About forgiveness and Marcus."*Dearest Ava,**By the time you read this, you and Marcus have probably found peace. But when you write about him, you're going to struggle with how to be honest about the pain without destroying his redemption story.**Here's what you need to remember: Marcus was both the villain and the hero of your story. He hurt you terribly because he was hurting terribly. He changed because you showed him what love could look like.**Don't soften his mistakes. Don't excuse his cruelty. But also don't forget his transformation. Both versions
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Over the next three weeks, I read through Lily's letters systematically, following her instructions about when each should be opened. Hope stayed with me, helping to organize them chronologically and thematically."This one is marked 'Read when you doubt your choices,'" Hope said, handing me another envelope.I'd read versions of that doubt a hundred times over the years. But reading Lily's words, written decades ago, addressing fears I hadn't even known I'd have – it was overwhelming.*Dearest Ava,**Right now, you're questioning whether you made the right decisions. Whether the foundation helps or hurts. Whether taking on the responsibility of so many families was wise or foolish.**I can't tell you the future beyond what I've already seen, but I can tell you this: doubt means you're still human. Certainty is dangerous. Keep questioning, keep adjusting, keep choosing love even when you're not sure it's working.**The moment you stop doubting is the moment you stop growing.*"She was
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At seventy-eight, my hands weren't as steady as they used to be, but my memory remained sharp. I sat at my desk surrounded by fifty years of photographs, journals, and letters, trying to make sense of the story I needed to tell."Mom, you've been at this for six hours," Hope said, appearing in the doorway with tea and concern. "You need to take breaks.""I can't. There's so much to say, and I don't know how much time I have left to say it.""You have plenty of time.""Maybe. Or maybe not. Either way, this story needs to be told."The manuscript spread across my desk was already three hundred pages long, and I'd only covered the first ten years. "The Art of Living" – the memoir that five different publishers were fighting over, sight unseen."The agent called again," Hope said, setting down the tea. "Random House increased their offer to two million. But the editor at Simon & Schuster says she'll match it and donate half the profits to the foundation.""This isn't about money.""I know
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