Father Night
“having slept all the way across the Atlantic. He had dreamed of Alli and of Emma, as they had been before Emma’s death, two friends and roommates, inseparable and intertwined. He dreamed that he was the perfect dad, taking them to deafening rock concerts, then out for hot fudge sundaes, or on long weekends, walking the barrier islands, picking up seashells, and splashing in the surf. He dreamed he had gone with Emma to pick out a dog, a boxer she had longed for, that she named it Cleo, and he h...elped her train it, watching her laugh at the puppy’s antics. He dreamed that, finally exhausted, she fell asleep in his arms, that he carried her to bed, and tucked her in. He dreamed of watching her sleeping face, pale in the puddle of moonlight slanting in through her bedroom window.
He awoke to the scream of brakes, the blur of motion out the window, and a catch in his throat that brought him to the edge of weeping. As he unbuckled, he recognized today as one of the days when he missed his daughter with an unbearable intensity, that this feeling would be with him all day, and that there was nothing he could do about it except put one foot in front of the other until, as in all the times before, it would fade into background chatter, impatiently anticipating its next flare-up.MoreLess
He awoke to the scream of brakes, the blur of motion out the window, and a catch in his throat that brought him to the edge of weeping. As he unbuckled, he recognized today as one of the days when he missed his daughter with an unbearable intensity, that this feeling would be with him all day, and that there was nothing he could do about it except put one foot in front of the other until, as in all the times before, it would fade into background chatter, impatiently anticipating its next flare-up.MoreLess
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