"I know Daddy. It's not even that she called me that, she didn't. Not really. She said it to her friend. But she meant for me to hear." Wren had known that then and she knew it still. "It's..." She didn't know what it was.
"It was the first time I realized that some people thought I should be ashamed of it. That you and Allegra had me and weren't married."
"But why, it's not like it threatens them? Just because you and Allegra had me and weren't married doesn't mean everyone else was going to." She sighed. "I'm not ashamed Daddy not by you or Mum or any of it, it just hurt then, and seeing that word again, made me remember."
"People are stupid."
"A free spirit, or obsessive? Fifty/Fifty, I suppose."