Chapter 14 - Margaret Makes One Personal Decision
A year after the lobby incident, Margaret invited Claire Rowan to lunch.
Not at Carter headquarters.
A small café.
Margaret brought no lawyers.
She apologized for believing Henry’s story about Theresa.
Claire asked:
“Did you know my mother?”
“Not well enough.”
“That’s probably why it was easy.”
Margaret understood.
People were easiest to reduce to a story when you did not know them.
Claire showed Margaret a photograph of Theresa gardening.
Not working.
Not testifying.
Not holding documents.
Just laughing with dirt on her gloves.
Margaret cried.
“I wish Henry had fixed it while she was alive.”
Claire replied:
“So do I.”
There was no grand forgiveness scene.
They finished lunch.
Margaret paid.
Claire left first.
Sometimes accountability produced a relationship.
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Sometimes it produced only a truthful conversation.
That was enough.
