Once again, the boy looks towards his mother for affirmation before replying hesitantly, "My dad.""That's right."Then he looks back at Aisha, "But Mama, Uncle Harry said my dad is a big scary ogre who lives under a tunnel.""Yes, well, goblin will eat your uncle's toes today for lying, won't he?"Glee fills my son's face, and he wriggles out of my grasp, rushing out, screaming at the top of his lungs, "Uncle Harry, mama says..."Aisha gets up to close the door behind him, and then she leans against the door, eyeing me warily, "I expected a more explosive reaction. Anger would have been my first guess."I stare at her, "Do I have a right to be angry?""I don't know," she comes to sit on the bed, facing me. "I did keep your son from you for all these years, so maybe?"I take her hands in mine and give her a serious look, "Thank you, Aisha. Thank you for keeping him safe all these years. Thank you for raising him with the kind of love neither of us ever got. And I'm sorry I wasn't depe
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