Lily—born when Emily was just 19. Mark was stunned. Emily had kept this secret their entire marriage.Sarah offered for Mark to meet Lily, who knew about her birth mother and resembled her in many ways. But Mark,
was torn—between the pain of the secret and the chance to connect with a piece of the woman he loved.“I don’t know if I can meet her without seeing the secret between us,” he wrote. “But maybe meeting her is the only way I’ll truly understand Emily—and begin to heal.”