relationships change, Dad began looking for a way to make the partnership permanent.

To him, family felt permanent.

“So you picked me,” I said.

He rubbed his forehead.

“I told myself it might be good for you too.”

“Did you ever ask?”

“No.”

Then I asked why medicine bothered him so much.

“It doesn’t.”

“You spent months trying to talk me out of it.”

“I spent months continue reading …