Thats so sad, and good reminder that we shouldn’t force others onto lifestyles that we want.

A very adept writer.

> “He wasted his entire life, my mom said to me, the evening we found the love letters. His entire life, and mine as well.”

What a burden of expectations to lay on both yourself & your own family.

I’m glad the author was able to put those aside & live her own life more authentically than her father did.

I like the storytelling, but the sentences without caps are pretty hard for me to parse. The constant search for the beginning of the next sentence destroys the emotional experience for me; I just can't dive into the text and feel "submerged".