After dad passed away, I discovered more about the man I’d always loved and admired.
There are people in the rooms that don’t usually have people in them. I have to knock before I go in. It feels like a share house. Mum hasn’t cooked for ages. The neighbours are feeding us well.
I wake up in the morning and there is a woman I vaguely recognise from my dad’s work, one of the girls from the office at the harness racing club, the trots, where Dad was the president. He loved horses, but he also was into horse racing. She sits on my bed and says she wants to tell me a story about my dad. I sit up.There had been a house on fire in town. The people who lived there weren’t home, but someone put the fire out and saved the family dog.
I still think about the woman sitting on my bed that day. It’s the only conversation I remember from the month after my father died.
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