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48 I’m 66 and the thing that broke me open this year was not a loss or a diagnosis or anything large — it was my grandson falling asleep on my chest on an ordinary afternoon, his whole small weight trusting me completely, and I sat there unable to move and understood that this is what all of it was for, not the career or the mortgage or the decades of doing the right thing, just this, just him, just now

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Tommy Baker @ Silicon Canals · today 16:30 EDT

I’m 66 and the thing that broke me open this year was not a loss or a diagnosis or anything large — it was my grandson falling asleep on my chest on an ordinary afternoon, his whole small weight trusting me completely, and I sat there unable to move and understood that this is what all of it was for, not the career or the mortgage or the decades of doing the right thing, just this, just him, just now

After decades of chasing success and building a life by all the "right" measures, a 66-year-old grandfather discovers that everything he thought mattered pales in comparison to the simple weight of a trusting child asleep on his chest.

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