Did Debbie know how much he loved her? He wasn’t sure. Did she know how hard he had fought to win custody because he wanted her to have a good life? Did she look at his long hours of work and his many trips and hate him for being gone so much?

            He hated how split in half his life was. At home he wondered why he didn’t just quit his job and move far away so he and his little girl could have a normal life. But at the Centre, the idea of another life faded. They needed him.