Career timelines. Budget plans. Even a floor plan for a house I thought I’d build one day.
I hadn’t looked at it in 18 years.
But she had.
“You had all these plans, Dad,” she said. “And then I came along, and you just put them all in a box and you never said a word about it. Not once. You just kept going.”
I opened my mouth to respond…
But nothing came out.
“You always told me I could be anything, Dad. But you never told me what you gave up to make that true.”
The officers stood silently in the background.
I had completely forgotten they were even there.
