At one point, right before he died, my dad said to me, “Ask me anything you want—anything—and I’ll answer you.” And so my brain raced. All these scenarios went through my mind. I realized I could ask him: “Why did you reject me when I was young? Why did you leave us?” Then, in that moment, I asked myself: “Is that the question I wanted to be the last I asked my dad? And was the answer anything I really needed to hear?” I mean, it just doesn’t make a difference. So, what I asked him was, “Dad, what were you looking for all these years?” And he looked at me and said: “Treasure. And I found it
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