Lake:

My excitement couldn't be contained. I could not believe my eyes. I was staring at my mother's face, the woman I thought I would never see again. I could almost see myself holding her, going on my knees and apologizing to her. For everything I had ever done, all the wrong words I had said to her, for judging her without knowing her side of the story. Hell! I even asked her to disappear, I told her she was dead to me. I knew I could never take those words back, I could not go back ...