The money is not a payment for services rendered, and I hope it never reads that way to you. It’s what should have gone toward raising her, all along, if I’d been able to do it myself. Use it, don’t use it — that part is yours to decide, the same as everything else about her has been yours to decide for sixteen years.
What I am asking, and it is the only thing I am asking, is whether I might someday meet her. Not today. Not this month, if that’s too soon. Whenever — if ever — feels right to both of you.
