My Fiancée Locked My Daughter Away for Her Late Mother’s Necklace—Then I Canceled the Wedding.
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Chapter 18 - ISABELLE’S THINGS
Therapy taught me something uncomfortable.
I had preserved too many objects myself.
Not because Grace asked.
Because I feared change.
Evelyn’s reaction was abusive.
My own attachment was not automatically healthy simply because hers was worse.
So Harrington and I reviewed the household items.
Did Grace need seventeen photographs?
No.
Could some go into archive storage?
Yes.
Did the breakfast-room painting need to remain forever?
No.
Could I redecorate?
Apparently.
The dead do not require interior control.
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That distinction mattered.
We could let the house change without letting anyone erase Isabelle.
