My Father Knew Him the Second He Stepped Into Frame

on TikTok.

I wasn’t home to see it.

I was having dinner with scholarship mentors who had become more like family than relatives ever had.

Meanwhile…

My parents finally returned from Tyler’s basketball game.

He had injured his ankle during the fourth quarter.

The recruiters they’d been counting on never approached him.

Mom opened TikTok while sitting on the continue reading …