She was a lost cause. He was crying and his face streamed with tears as he groped for her and she drew back and stood up to go over to the window. She did not want his touch, and he wept for the lonely battered child she once was and for the emotionally withdrawn and psychologically damaged woman that she had become. She was sharing things with him that she thought were her worst secrets, and it was going to kill him that she had these feelings toward them rather than the shame of the pathetic mess of a woman who had raised her.

"I never felt like I deserved...