🍒 Chapter 28: Fever Dreams

This episode revisits Cece’s complicated relationship with her father through the lens of a painful Christmas confrontation. After asking him not to joke about her mother, he responds by cutting off contact, sending cruel texts, and ultimately telling her he never loved her.

Supported by her husband, Cece chooses not to engage in the conflict and instead focuses on boundaries and self-worth. She explains why she decided not to share the texts publicly and reflects on what it means to walk away from toxic relationships.

The chapter then returns to her recurring dream about forgetting a combination lock — which stopped completely after she cut ties with her dad. Cece connects this to dream interpretation themes of identity, self-expression, and emotional testing.

She closes with compassion: she still loves her father, remains civil, but deeply guarded — and openly wonders whether reconciliation is healthy or simply reopening old wounds.

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⚠️ Potential triggers featured in this episode may include, but are not limited to:

• Verbal abuse from a parent

No graphic sexual content is included.