“She made her choices, Father. Gloriana decided how she was going to survive, and so did you. You could have easily sacrificed my mother, embraced Gloriana and her father’s ways, and never looked back. But you did not do that.”
My father started walking again, still holding my hand “I loved your real mother too much. And Anemone loved me, and we loved you. That love is what helped us make the hardest decision of our lives. Gloriana has never known how to love. No one ever taught her”.
“There isn’t really a lot of love in The Committee. We are taught in Grooming Tech that making a suitable match is more important than emotional feelings. There is not a lot of emotion in many of the Marriages I have seen” I pointed out the very obvious.
“You are right. We are not taught to love,” my fathe
