My Parents Died Before Graduation and I Thought No One Would Be There for Me — Then Two Hands Covered My Eyes From Behind

I’m not going back overseas.

I’m coming home.

For good.”

For a second I couldn’t speak.

“What?

Ethan — no.

You love it.

The service, the whole thing, you were talking about making it a career, you said it was the only place you ever felt like you were —”