I came today because I wanted to do the grown thing. He was my first love, my high school sweetheart, and even though my life is completely different now, it still felt wrong to not show up. My husband didn’t hesitate when I asked him to come with me. He sat right there in the front with me, on the aisle, just holding it down so I wouldn’t have to walk through all that by myself. I told myself it was just paying respects, just saying goodbye properly, just closing a chapter that ended a long tim

Meeting my dad for the first time as an adult