A Coiled Spring - The Paris Review
Briefly

Before my father died in 2001, I knew that I loved him but only dimly.I didn't really feel it, and to the extent that I did, I experienced it as painful.When he was dying I almost didn't go to him.When I was trying to decide whether to go, someone asked me, "Do you want to see him?"And I said, "That's hard to say.
Read at The Paris Review
[
]
[
|
]