“Why the tears?” he says to Dylan, and he turns to look at my father. “Mom and me are going to be Stones,” he says. Matthew looks up to the sky, and if I didn’t know better, I would think he is crying. “Is that so?” my father says, beaming. “Yeah, and Justin is going to be my dad,” he says, and I swear it just makes my heart feel fuller, bigger, complete. “Well, son,” my father says to me, “you’ve got a great family there.” “So since he’s my dad, that kind of makes you my grandpa,” Dylan says and then looks down. “Is it okay? If you don’t want me to call you that, I won’t.” My father gets down
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