For my stepmom, Lee, to commemorate the anniversary of our reading - January 26th 2017 - and the beautiful story that she wrote about it (below). The Reading: My Dad, Samantha (My Stepdaughter), and Me. ~ Veiled in the heaviness from the night before, or maybe even the years, Sam sat on the steps facing the ocean. “Come a little closer,” she said, “I need to touch you.” We hadn’t done much touching in the first 22 years of our relationship, but one morning last summer back ho
