I almost let him leave without further comment, but there was one more unresolved issue hanging over us. I stopped him just before he reached the doorway. “You never answered my question from the hospital.” Your team or your son? I needed to hear him say it. My father looked back at me, his face unreadable. “The team will always be there,” he said. “But I only have one son.” Then he left, and I was alone in the silence once again.
