My Biggest Regret Is Not Spending Your Last Birthday With You
You don’t always have next year
4 min readOct 8, 2022
My dad’s birthday was on the 4th of August. But that year, on the 3rd of August, my boyfriend was returning from five weeks away. I was twenty-one and increasingly nervous about how distant my relationship was getting. I wanted to spend some time with my boyfriend to reassure the fear that we were ending…