Five months pregnant, standing behind those doors with my dad, heart pounding. Here's what the Sharks were really like, the three months of secret-keeping after, and what a year on the other side has taught me.
At 84, you could spin him around in the middle of a busy crowd in Albuquerque and ask him which way was North, and he’d point without hesitation. He never needed a compass. He just knew. He always knew where he stood, even when the rest of the world felt upside down.
