At My Father’s Ceremony They Said I Could Not Do Anything Right Until I Walked In And Smiled

was right. Accountability without specificity is just sentiment. Some things need to be named and held, not to punish but to keep from repeating.

We sat there until the tea was cold.

Not talking, exactly. But not not talking. Existing in the same room at the same time with mutual knowledge of each other, which for us represented meaningful progress.

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