People ask me why my father pulled a gun. They want to know the scene, the juice, the story, the trigger. They want to understand. They want to help.
I don’t want to tell it.
Not because I’m protecting him—he doesn’t deserve that. But because repeating it feels like feeding it. Keeping it alive when I’ve spent years trying to let it die.
Still, I bring it…
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