My Father Calls Me Every Day But Has Refused to Visit Me for More than a Decade

My father is going to India for three weeks. His last trip was to Spain; the time before that, he spent ten days in Morocco. He goes there yearly. The previous trip was to Turkey, and honestly, I can’t keep track of all the countries he’s visited over the last decade. 

I can tell you the exact last time he visited me, though. It’s been twelve years. He came to my daughter’s fourth birthday party. It was pouring and we had to shift the party from the back yard into the garage. That day he watc...