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Carl is very quiet and inside himself right now, as Stella pauses to allow him a few moments. Then he says, looking up at us, "Yes. We did know this all the time. No one spoke of it. It was never mentioned. But Mom's absolute state of terror and rage as she collected us both and bundled us into your car, Stella. I had never ever seen her that way before. Melissa and I never talked about it. It somehow felt like something too horrible to touch." "Yes, I completely understand, Carl. "Your father, with Sven's help, did everything possible to track you both down, but somehow they never found out where you were being hidden But they eventually gave it up. Still, there were the divorce proceedings and all that horrible mess of blackmail, basically enslaving you to him in exchange for your share of inheritance and maintenance....