“You sound like him.” “Because I am him in a lot of ways but we both know the most important ways that I’m not.” I love and respect my family with no preexisting conditions. Especially ones that were impossible to live up to. With a toss of his chin, Elias acknowledged the truth in my statement and got in the car. I wasn’t a perfect man but I would never be as fucked up as our father had been to all of us.
