My Daughter Went to the Father Daughter Dance Alone Until a Dozen Marines Walked In

see any of your friends?” I asked, scanning the room.

“They’re all with their dads,” she said, without bitterness, just as observation.

We found a spot along the wall near the mats stacked at the end of the gym, the territory of the edge-dwellers, the ones who for whatever reason are not in the thick of things. I sat and Katie curled up beside me with continue reading …