On making sure that after he was gone, the truth would still have a voice in the room, in his own words, that no one could dismiss as his grieving daughter’s invention.

He had used nearly the last of himself to speak from the far side of his own death.

I had to look at the floor for a moment.

And then I made myself look back up, because he had not gone to that trouble so that I could look away at the end.

Chapter 13 — What He Asked For

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