I followed Bram with my eyes as I listened to what Mama Credence was saying. He was visiting every tent. Then I turned back to Mama Credence, "What was his reaction when you told him about me?"

Mama Credence was also watching Bram, "My dear, he was furious," answered my mother-in-law, "He did not want to come home and he did not answer our calls for weeks. And then he came home because he wanted to see his dad."

I looked down and I started to tear up. I remembered those crucial weeks that Mama Credence asked me to not go to the ancestral house to avoid interactions with Bram....