Daddy's "awful" for the novel Suzy wrote

Dana brought up how she was sure Daddy thought the novel Suzy was writing at age eight was awful, but after sharing that with Suzy, she realized that she, Dana, had probably just perceived it that way out of jealousy.  Unfortunately, before realizing that Daddy was very admiring of Suzy's childhood undertaking, she told Suzy that Daddy had belittled her writing attempt and called it awful. 

"Oh, Dana, please don't help Suzy build a case against Daddy.  She really loved him when she was a child, and he was a wonderful father to her--not like he was with us.  He thought she was wonderful, and if he called her novel awful, it was in 'Isn't this awful?' about the fact that she killed the mother off in the first paragraph."

Suzy's novel went something like this.  "Her mother is no longer living, and the father blames himself because he was driving when she was killed."

Daddy was impressed that an eight year old would start writing a novel--a novel with chapters instead of an idea for a novel recopied and recopied, providing excuses for sharpening pencils.  Suzy just kept going.  And Daddy was very admiring. 

I wish we still had the pages Suzy wrote, but I think some of them blew away, and then she just stopped writing.

But I worry that she's re-written a really warm and loving relationship into one that wasn't that way at all.

Repressed memory is when you remember disturbing things that never happened and forget things that could reassure you now.