Then he started canceling visits.
Then he stopped answering calls.
Eventually, he simply vanished from her life.
After a while, I stopped trying to give Lisa explanations I didn’t actually have.
Then Brandon came along.
He was careful with her from the beginning.
He never walked into our lives acting as though he had been assigned the role of “new dad.”
He didn’t force affection.
He didn’t expect her to trust him immediately.
He simply showed up.