Here If You Need Me: Learning to Be Present While Fighting for Your Father
When fighting on behalf of the father you love, who do you become?
To hell with quarantine
You’ve got this, you’ve got this, you have come this far,
me
Here if you need us.
Here if you need usHere if you need us.
Here if you need usHere if you need us.
Beth Kephart is the award-winning author of three dozen books in multiple genres and an award-winning teacher at the University of Pennsylvania. Her new memoir in essays is Wife | Daughter | Self (Forest Avenue Press). Her new craft book is We Are the Words: The Master Memoir Class, from which this essay was adapted. More at bethkephartbooks.com.
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