The Crossing helped me fulfill a promise made to a good friend – that I would help raise his boys if he couldn't – that they would get the same kind of exposure to how a man behaves that he would have given them, and that they'd end up better and harder working humans for having shared time with a friend of their dad's. No one wants to do this. It means you have lost a friend. Revisiting that loss will never feel good, but just like the long and arduous military training Jason and I endured molded in us the value of unhesitatingly choosing the hard right over the easy wrong, the opportunity to pass on the values that Jason would have instilled in his boys was more important to me than avoiding the pain of remembering just how good a man he was.
The Crossing helped me fulfill a promise made to a good friend – that I would help raise his boys if he couldn't – that they would get the same kind of exposure to how a man behaves that he would have given them, and that they'd end up better and harder working humans for having shared time with a friend of their dad's.
No one wants to do this. It means you have lost a friend. Revisiting that loss will never feel good, but just like the long and arduous military training Jason and I endured molded in us the value of unhesitatingly choosing the hard right over the easy wrong, the opportunity to pass on the values that Jason would have instilled in his boys was more important to me than avoiding the pain of remembering just how good a man he was.
No one wants to do this. It means you have lost a friend. Revisiting that loss will never feel good, but just like the long and arduous military training Jason and I endured molded in us the value of unhesitatingly choosing the hard right over the easy wrong, the opportunity to pass on the values that Jason would have instilled in his boys was more important to me than avoiding the pain of remembering just how good a man he was.
