Every Woman My Widowed Father Dated Vanished Without a Trace—So I Asked My Best Friend to Go on One Date With Him to Find Out Why

By the third time, he blamed himself.

“Maybe I talk about your mother too much,” he said.

“You barely mention her on dates.”

“Maybe I am too old fashioned.”

“You held a door open for her. That is not a crime.”

He gave me a tired smile, but my reassurance never reached him.

Every rejection broke his heart.

“I don’t understand,” he’d whisper.

“They all seemed continue reading …