A New Beginning After Divorce
Chapter 3
Years later, when I had become a stylish older woman myself, I finally understood that these video diary-like recordings are what people now call vlogs.
Julieta’s vlog was titled “The Runaway Princess Returns Home,” stylishly embellished with pink neon subtitles. Derek was holding Mathew when he went to pick her up, but she refused to get in the car until he said, “Princess, please get in the car.”
She asked Mathew, who was happily enjoying a chocolate waffle cone, if she could have a taste. After swallowing a whole scoop, the child began to cry, and she playfully ran after him, trying to make it up to him. She even added a clip of herself directing Mathew in a video. In his sweet, childlike voice, he counted, “Three, two, one,” capturing the moment Julieta rested her head on Derek’s shoulder, smiling with the innocence of a young girl.
The comments section was filled with praise:
“What a fabulously youthful grandma!”
“This is the childhood I dream about—both grandpa and grandma are so delightful!”
“Look how grandpa just keeps grinning at grandma in the background. The kid fell while running, and he didn’t even notice, haha. Definitely, his wife is his number one, the grandchild must be adopted.”
Everyone assumed it was a day out with grandparents and their grandchild. The video replayed over and over, each loop piercing my heart.
So this is the Disneyland the child was so excited to visit.
Turns out my hearing isn’t as bad as I thought.
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