An Ocean Between Them by Cheryl Espinosa-Jones

Author:Cheryl Espinosa-Jones [Espinosa-Jones, Cheryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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The timing was fortunate. Not the week of her chemo and not the week when she and Rhonda were set to go to a workshop with Devin Paul, the guy whose books about dealing with illness had become like bibles to them.

They took him aside at lunch on Saturday, eager to tell him what was happening with Sal. Chloe described what had happened between them, and said she was afraid she wasn’t going to be able to let her mother into her heart.

“Chloe, if you keep her out, the one who will be most hurt is you. She’s already suffering from what she’s done. You don’t need to be in charge of her consequences. Can you remember what you used to love about your mother?”

Chloe’s mind was flooded with pictures from the earliest times she could remember. Her mother singing to her before bed, or reading a book. Her mother covering her face with bubbles to make Chloe laugh in the tub, stay in the water just long enough to cover her with soap and rinse her off. The time in first grade when the teacher yelled at her and Sal came in the next day.

“You will not yell at my child.”

She remembered, again, that Sal had changed when her marriage failed. That there had been a time before that when Sal had been warm and fun loving, almost kind. It helped her to imagine that Chloe’s father had wounded Sal and she was just now beginning to repair. Chloe realized that she had blamed Sal for all the problems, but that was probably because they were closer than she was with her father. She absorbed for the first time that she had rarely heard from her father since she had been sick. She was so used to his failures that they hardly affected her.

Devin listened until they had told him everything. Then he put his hand gently on the center of Chloe’s chest and said, “Do whatever you need to do to heal this beautiful heart.”

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