I had been his father.
I met Laura five years earlier.
At the time, she worked in a small home goods store.
I was an electrician, and I had been called in to fix a problem with the wiring.
The first time I saw her, we only spoke for a few minutes.
But I couldn’t stop thinking about her.
So two days later, I returned to the store.
I told her I needed to check the installation again.
The truth was that everything was working perfectly.
Laura figured it out immediately.
She laughed at me.
“You came back just to see me, didn’t you?”
I tried to deny it.
I failed.
