“Don’t make promises you can’t keep! You can’t promise you will come back to me. Something could happen to you. Look what happened last time.” Her anger quickly turns to agony. She drops back down, her shattered sobs slicing me right down the middle. “I’ve never asked anything from you. I’ve supported you in everything you’ve chosen to do, even if I didn’t like it. But I’m begging you now, please don’t do this, please don’t leave again. I won’t survive if something happens to you.”
