“Am I doing this because it’s right?

Or because I’ve wanted to beat my father at something my whole life?”

“Both can be true,” she said.

“The question is what you do when you have the chance to hurt him.”

I watched a therapy patient practicing steps beyond the glass partition.

“Sometimes I hear his laugh from the courtroom,” I admitted.

“And I want to show him every citation, every promotion, every person who believed in me.

I want him to feel small.”