For himself.
“I need to find who I am,” he had said, suitcase already packed, as if identity was something you discovered by abandoning the people who needed you most.
He left Linda with six children:
Mark, the eldest, already trying to act like a second father
Jason and Caleb, caught between boyhood and responsibility
Sarah and Eliza, who learned too early how to comfort their mother
And Grant… the youngest, the one who worried her the most
She became everything overnight.