"When I got the tissue and looked over, you were already gone! That piece of tiramisu, half-eaten, was placed on the table!"

"I thought you ran off somewhere again and started to search for you, but I couldn't. The whole venue was so huge, I never saw you again! You disappeared!"

Mary clenched her palms tightly. "Just like that, you disappeared from my sight. Once you left, it took more than twenty years..."

Every time she recalled this, Mary felt extremely heartbroken and blamed herself.

"Gale, I always think that I didn't take good care of you. It's all my fault. I lost you because I didn't fulfill my responsibility as a mother." Mary looked at her with red eyes.

Mary took all the responsibility for Gale's disappearance on herself.

She thought, if she had been following Gale all the time, if she had been guarding every step of the way, if she had not brought Gale to the charity dinner but stayed at home, Gale would not have been lost.

"How can I blame you? It's not your fault,