There is something I need to tell you, and I wish I’d discovered it sooner.
Grandpa explained that while recovering from eye surgery, he’d trusted my mother to handle several financial matters.
When she told him I needed temporary help with the bakery, he approved $60,000.
He believed it would reach me.
Only much later, while reviewing records with Marty, did he discover the money had been redirected toward Derek’s house purchase.
Grandpa had never rejected my request.
He hadn’t even known I believed he had.
One sentence made me start crying.
I trusted someone else’s explanation instead of asking you directly. That was my mistake.
He explained that he’d arranged to preserve my equipment after the closure.
Later, he’d acquired Ingrid’s old bakery building and begun preparing it for me.
He’d planned to take me there on our April drive.
But there was another sentence near the bottom.
