MY DAD'S BEST FRIEND
“I am empty sometimes, too.”
“That is okay.” I reach a hand out and glide it over his stubble. “We can fill each other up, because that is what love is, Dan. There are bad days and good days. Yes, the bad days can be hard and have a lot of empty bursts, red markers, and negative feelings. But that is okay, too, because we’re there to catch each other when we fall. We’re there to turn the bad days into good ones because we can. I do not know about the rest of the world, but you and I can totally do it. Do you know why?”
He grabs my hand that is on his cheek and strokes his thumb on the back of it, eliciting tiny shudders from me. “Why?”
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