1 days before my wedding, dad called: “i’m not wal…

It was not grief. It was not a sudden wave of loss or the sharp sting of abandonment. It was an intense, nearly overwhelming unburdening. The air in the cavernous stone mill literally felt lighter. It was as if a low-grade, suffocating pressure had been abruptly vented from the room. For three decades, I had constantly monitored the emotional barometer continue reading …