And One Day She Found Herself

Several years ago my husband's company hired a recent graduate for their marketing department. She was quiet and withdrawn. He was concerned, on a human level, she was hurting inside. He asked me to talk with her, not as the owner's wife but as a woman. We met for lunch, I got some of her background, but a lot was missing. After several meetings with her, over six months she began to open up. Until she told me what her father had done to her. My heart cried for her. I told my husband he was now responsible for her, it was his wish that led to her revealing that awful truth.

Over the next five years she found a new world, and she became completely given to him. Many times I witnessed her in his arms, safe, loved, she belonged. She became one of ours. She was then 25, a new person, gregarious, hard working, open, spiritual. At one of our Independence Day parties at our beach house I saw something in her eyes. That night she came to me and asked if she could sleep with me. My husband was asleep, I made room for her and we were soon asleep.

I woke up in the early hours and found her sound asleep in his arms. That night I knew she had found peace, her father's actions no longer poisoned her. He held her and she slept like a lamb in his arms.