Amelia Cobb blinked, as if waiting for him to continue.
Christopher Robinson began this part of the conversation with, "My father really loved my mother."
"Madeline Carter came from a well-off family, and she never had to do any housework. From a young age, my father instilled in me the idea of taking care of my mother. Every winter, we would eat dumplings together, but it wasn't Madeline or the servants who made them—it was my father. He gave her enough care and made sure the ceremonies of every holiday were elaborate. This continued until I was twenty."
Listening to Christopher Robinson's calm tone, Amelia teased, "Seems like not everything written in books is true."
"Huh?"
"Some people heal their entire lives with their childhood, and some people heal their childhood with their entire lives."
If you miss a stage in life, you miss it, and it's not necessary to try to heal it later on.
She and Christopher Robinson had two completely different childhoods.
