Last year my son called me from the hospital parking lot at midnight just to talk
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Last year my son called me from the hospital parking lot at midnight just to talk — not about anything, just to have a voice on the other end while he waited — and I stayed on the phone for two hours and said almost nothing and understood in those two hours that this was the whole thing, that everything I had done as a father had been pointing toward the moment my child called at midnight because I was the person he wanted to hear

There is a specific kind of silence that only exists at midnight. It is heavy, expectant, and usually, it is

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