The Grandfather Who Carried Me Through Every Fire Life Ever Set

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We would spin around the kitchen floor until I was laughing too hard to feel nervous anymore.

He always ended those evenings the same way.

“When your prom comes,” he would say with a grin, “I’ll be the most handsome date there.”

I always believed him.

The Day Everything Shifted

Three years ago, I came home from school to find him on the kitchen floor.

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