Mom Said The Anniversary Trip Was Canceled Because Of Budget Issues. A Week Later I Found A Facebook Album Of My Family In Paris Without Me. Then She Asked Me For Help

where I could make the decision cleanly, without it being driven by grief or guilt or the desperate hope that helping Richard would somehow return something of my dad to me.

My dad is not coming back in any form. Richard is not a replacement for him, and no amount of money loaned or organs donated was ever going to change the shape of that absence. continue reading …