Heavy. Painful. Real.
She looked at him again.
Not like a stranger.
But like her son.
The boy she thought she lost.
And in that moment… she broke.
She stepped forward slowly…
And hugged him.
Tightly.
Like she was afraid he would disappear again.
“I thought you abandoned me…” she whispered.
“I thought you hated me…”
He held her, crying.
“I never stopped loving you.”
They stood there… holding onto 10 years of pain.
10 years of misunderstanding.
10 years of silence.
Finally… gone.