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G: “Dad, that home is part of the family legacy. You will just let her have it?” K: “If it frees me from her, happily. I’m sorry kids. I know I can never take back all the horrible things we did to you. I hope someday you can forgive me. You see, everything Jan had to go though, all you inherited from her, April, I had to go through it as well. I should have changed it instead of repeating the cycle. But your mom was everything my father wanted, and once I married her, she took over, and I didn’t fight her. I was just so tired, and I didn’t know how, to be honest. But that’s no excuse. I am equally to blame for hurting you. I just hope that, if I ever have grandchildren, they won’t have to go through the same. So you can have it all. Make our name into something better,” he said as he turned on his heels to leave. A: “Dad, wait. You found January years ago. Why didn’t you go find her?” K: “So that I could bring her back into the tragedy that is this family? No. She had escaped, and there was no turning back. And you had overcome so much, I couldn’t take it from you. I thought… I thought it was over. That we couldn’t mess you all up more than we already had. Guess I was wrong.” A: “Thank you, dad. For letting her go. For not fighting us on this.” K: “Of course. I… I love you kids. But I know… we messed up. I messed up. We will leave you alone. Octavia too, I will make sure.”