The Unbearable Pain of Watching Your Father Die
I feel guilty for feeling relieved that I wasn’t there in the end
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6 min readMar 4, 2021
That night, I couldn’t sleep; the pain in my tooth kept me awake.
It throbbed with every heartbeat. It felt like shards of lightning spiked off in every direction, ricocheting around my skull. No matter the position of my head on the pillow, the…