married off his daughter

of his nose, the hollows of his cheeks, the wetness of his eyes. He wasn’t the monster her sister had described. He was a man shattered by his own humanity, trying to glue the pieces back together with hers.

“You should have told me,” she said.

“I was afraid that if you knew I was a doctor, you would ask me to fix the one thing I cannot,” he choked out.continue reading …