I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice.

Raquel Cepeda
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When a person is in love with someone, they will often do anything they can to make that person feel good. In this example, the son is doing everything he can to make his father happy. In all likelihood, the father has been suffering from a serious illness. The son also knows about the illness and has been hiding it from his father.

Pretending not to notice isn’t going to help the situation. Instead, the son should have been honest about his concerns for his father. Now that they have come clean, there is hope that things will get better.

Source: Bird Of Paradise: How I Became Latina

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