“You take the blame a lot for a woman who was only a child when your parents divorced.” I dragged one finger down the window, following a line of a water drop on the other side of the glass. “I remember the anger I had that my father wouldn’t come home. I remember consciously making a choice in my teenage years to not visit after so many years of him not visiting a single time and forbidding me to come for the holidays. I forced an estrangement too. That’s on me. I was being selfish and emotional.” He sighed. “Carl was selfish and emotional—he was the adult. You can’t take full responsibility.
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