Chapter 78: Doorstep Of Forgiveness.

It's been three days since I got Sandra's card and gift and I haven't written her a thank-you note because I can't decide on the content or tone. Should I forgive her outrightly? Tell her that I miss her, too, and that although I will never fully accept her relationship with Max, I want to repair our friendship?

I got out of bed and walked down the hall to the nursery room. In one of the closets, I retrieved an album, stuck down in a side pocket of one of my suitcases. I had put together the album several summers before and had packed it at the last moment.

I carried the album back to Andrew's room. Making myself comfortable on his bed, I flipped through it, skipping past the photos of Vanessa and Max various other friends, and finding one of Sandra and me taken in the Hamptons right after she and Max had graduated from law school. I studied our carefree poses, our broad smiles, our arms draped casually around each other as we stood by water's edge in our bikinis. I can practically sm