Hailey gently told her father that she was not angry because he had insulted Grandpa. She was angry because he had spent his life insulting the very work his own father had done. She explained that she had never brought the scholarship folder to humiliate him. She wanted him to understand that there was another way to feel proud.
Diane then revealed that she had discovered the truth about Frank six years earlier while reviewing his death certificate. She had waited for Gordon to tell her himself. Hearing this, Gordon broke down and wept against his wife’s shoulder. Later that evening, he asked me to tell him about Walter. I described the granola bars, the children he quietly helped, and the night Walter stayed at school during a blizzard to protect the building’s heating system. I also told him about Marcus, a former student who became an electrical engineer and remembered Walter’s simple question: whether he had eaten.
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