Theresa hadn\u2019t spoken to her father in fifteen years. He had been a hard man and a heavy drinker, and when she left home at nineteen, she swore she was done. She never knew he had gotten so sick. Jace had found him by accident, through an old address on a birthday card in Theresa\u2019s closet. When he drove out to see him, he found an old man with early dementia, a cold trailer, and an empty refrigerator.<\/p>\n
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Jace couldn\u2019t walk away, and he couldn\u2019t tell his mother either. So every weekend, he and Logan slept on the floor of that trailer, cooked soup, washed dishes, fixed the leaking roof, and made sure the old man took his pills. That was why Logan always came home exhausted and headed straight for the shower. They had pooled their part-time paychecks to buy his groceries. Logan\u2019s careful pizza texts were sent from that trailer.<\/p>\n
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