“You and Stephen were all he talked about,” she said. “The doctors won’t ever say it, but he died of a broken heart.”
Of many of the worst conversations I had with my dad after the divorce, I would have to regularly remind him of his culpability for some genuinely malevolent things in his life. He was going to end up entirely alone.
I wasn’t wrong then. Even if I pity him now ... a pity no less than what the author is taking us through in this section with her dad.
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