On the December 26, 2023 episode, all of her memories came flooding back.
In a Shakespearean monologue, she spoke to the headstone, “I should want to take that path.
But you never showed it to me.
I had to learn it all on my own.
And even then, it’s really only because I lost my memory.”
She reflected on the positive changes she’d made, but a darkness also crept into her thoughts.
The crooked one that you showed me, and it would be so easy to go back.
But what if I don’t have a choice?"
“That is the legacy you left me, dad.”
But as the year went on, Esme became a self-pitying sad sack.
It seems clear that she’s going to take the darker, yet more informed path.
