Very little.”
“She doesn’t talk to me like that.”
“You try to fix her problems before she has finished describing them.”
“I’m her father. That’s my job.”
“Your job is to make sure she knows she does not have to carry them alone.”
That was Ezra’s gift.
He listened without making people feel weak for needing to speak.
Over time, I began telling him things I had never told anyone except Rachel.
My father had left when I was eleven.
At first, he called every week. Then once a month.