My Father Texted Me at 2:43 A.M. to Say I Was Dead to Him

was easier.”

“For who?”

“For all of you.”

She looked up.

“And for you?”

That one I didn’t have a clean answer to. So I gave her the messy one.

“I thought if I kept everything running, eventually one of you would notice. And when you noticed, you’d be grateful. And then I’d be in the family the way Matthew is in the family. The way you’re in the family.”

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