She calls from Target to ask if I need anything. She is bright and cheery. Friendly. She is confident we are on the same side. No clue she has been lied to.

The revelation of the lie will be bad enough. What the lie was hiding will be poison to her. She will still call from Target. But the tone behind her words will be resentment. I am raising your daughters, it will say, to be good people, in spite of you. You cannot be trusted. You are on the wrong side.