On My Daughter’s 16th Birthday,** She Received a Letter from Her Late Nanny –_She Read the First Line, Looked at Me, and Asked, ‘M0m, What Did She Mean by This?1

I thought my daughter’s sixteenth birthday would be about cake, memories, and the woman we’d both lost years ago. Instead, one message from the past forced me to face a choice I’d regretted ever since – and a truth I’d never expected my daughter to uncover.