TIME OUT

Okay, time out again.

I don’t really know what to say about all this. I can’t blame Mom for not telling me this stuff sooner. She was the one who’d been around all my life, not him.

It was sad and really strange finding out that my dad had died as a soldier, but at the same time, it didn’t change much. Like I said before, I was used to everything the way it was.

In a way, the only thing that really changed was how I thought about my dad. Until then he was someone who’d run away and never come back.

But now he was a hero too.

I’m not saying that I wasn’t sad about it and maybe a little confused. I’m just saying that I’m okay.

Okay?

So that’s pretty much it. And just in case you’re starting to think this book is going to have the world’s saddest ending, let me tell you about everything that happened next.

It’s actually pretty cool.