“Remember how we’d watch a show together, and I’d pause to talk to you about why that character had made a certain decision or something?” I asked. “You know what you’d do almost every time? You’d look at me and say, ‘Why do you care so much?’ ” The phrase echoed in my mind. Every time he made me feel small for having too many feelings about something that didn’t involve me. “That’s the thing, Ethan. I’m always gonna care too much,”
