His anger hit like a slammed door. Not at her death, not at fate, but at the proof that she’d tried, quietly, imperfectly, to make something right before the clock ran out. She’d planned a trust fund, drafted apologies, rehearsed a version of love she never felt brave enough to speak. He thought he knew her story. Then the box arrived, full of papers that didn’t match the mother he’d already judged and filed away in his memory. Line by line, draft by draft, it showed a woman fumbling toward repair, even as he’d stayed distant, certain there would always be more time to talk, to ask, to forgive. The illusion of certainty shattered with every page, until he realized the real debt was never about mon… Continues…