Here’s to you, Pops!

I had never seen my stepdad cry, but it was taking everything in him not to at that very moment. As he blinked heavier than usual and gulped back the lump in his throat, he said, “This is not okay, but it’s going to be okay.” Then, he turned and walked back to his car with my child punching and kicking him, buckled him in the backseat, and they drove off…