A Father's Confession by Guy de Maupassant

A Father's Confession is read by his grown children after burial. They were expecting a standard will, certainly not this: "It ate into my mind like a fixed idea, just as cancers must eat into the flesh. It was there, in my head, in my heart, in my whole body, it seemed to me; and it swallowed me up as a wild beast might have."

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