Mark learned that the hard way.
Grief didn’t arrive all at once—it came in waves. Quiet ones, most days. The kind that hit when he reached for a second coffee mug out of habit… or when he heard a song his wife used to hum while cooking dinner.
But the hardest part wasn’t the silence.
It was learning how to be everything for someone else.
A Father Learning as He Goes
Melissa was five when her mother passed.
Too young to fully understand, but old enough to feel the absence.
She asked questions that didn’t have simple answers.
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