My daughter wore a lavender dress to the father-daughter dance six months after her dad, Captain Mark Lawson, was ᴋɪʟʟᴇᴅ overseas, and she stood by the gym doors all night believing he might still walk in… until the PTA president crossed the floor, looked her in the eye, and told her in front of everyone that the night wasn’t really for “situations like hers”…

My name is Megan Lawson, and my daughter is Katie, and six months before that night my husband Captain Mark Lawson died on the other side of the world in a place whose name still tastes like metal whenever I try to say it out loud. Since then every ordinary thing has split into before and after, because before I …

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