Pāhonoa te oro

It wasn’t some dramatic, obvious moment where everything fell apart at once. It was a buildup of small things that didn’t feel right. She would cancel plans at the last minute for no clear reason. Sometimes she’d get calls from unknown numbers — and this was before spam calls were even common. One night, when I really needed to reach her, her phone was just… off. At first, I tried to ignore it. But deep down, I knew something wasn’t adding up. Everything finally clicked when I did a bit of In