UNITED STATES
Hevria
Editor’s Note: This piece is written by Marc Gafni’s third ex-wife who was married to him from 1998 to 2004. She wrote about her experience in a recent post for the Times of Israel.
I will never forget your apology to me. Tearful, remorseful, awful.
You kept it a secret. You held it in for well over a decade. Embroidered it into your skin…Sequestered from sight and air and left it rotting there inside of you.
Sometimes I imagine all the sick little secrets he ever spawned…all drawn upon the skin of the women who entrusted their silence, their innocence, their sense of shame, to him.
I remember how broken you were. How over-spilled with shame. Begging my forgiveness.
And all I could think was, no I don’t forgive you. I don’t.
Because I don’t blame you. I don’t have a drop of blame to add to this flask of self-guilt you continue to sip.
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