Parenting
“Renata left when Lily was two,” he said. “Not the way your father left. She’s still around, still sees them every other weekend, still loves them in her own way. We just weren’t right for each other, and it took us too long to admit it.”
“Did it feel like failing? When it ended?”
“Every single day, for a while,” he said. “Then I met your mom in a hardware store aisle, and somehow I got a second chance at figuring out how to actually show up for people. I didn’t expect that second chance to include you too. Best surprise of the whole deal, if I’m honest.”
“You never once made me feel like a surprise you were tolerating.”
Autos & Vehicles
“Because you weren’t,” he said simply. “You were just part of the package I got lucky enough to end up with.”
