My Child Laughed And Said Dad Was There Until I Looked Closer

changed everything, and I sat across from him and watched him and tried to hold the room still long enough to breathe.

He looked up at me with frosting at the corner of his mouth. “Is the party over?”

“Yes, baby.”

“Can we watch a movie?”

“Yes.”

He nodded, satisfied, and finished his cake.

That simplicity, his total willingness to accept that the party was continue reading …