launched a massive search?"
“Exactly.” Stella glanced at Neville, impressed by his perceptiveness.
"After he returned to the Williams family, the fisherwoman followed not long after.”
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At this point, a bitter, almost mocking glint flickered in Stella's eyes.
"Maybe it's true what they say—a single day as husband and wife creates a lifetof debt. My father felt so
guilty towards her that he arranged for her to be taken care of."
"My father only lost those three years of memory because he was trying to save my mother, so out of gratitude,
she tolerated the arrangement with the fisherwoman."
"But the woman wasn't content. She kept trying to cbetween my parents. With my father's memory still
gone, she almost succeeded."
"It was only a short tafter my parents signed the divorce papers that my father's memory finally returned."
"He tore up the papers and refused to let the divorce go through. In the end, my mother remembered all the
trouble he'd gotten into rescuing her, and she forgave him."
"My father promised to send the fisherwoman away."
"But a year later, the woman returned this tholding a little girl. She gave my mother two choices: either take
the child in and raise her as their own, or get a divorce and let her raise the girl herself."
"No matter how patient my mother was, she couldn't stand the idea of facing an illegitimate child every day. She
decided on divorce, but my father wouldn't agree."