The café opened at six-thirty every morning, which meant I arrived at six to prepare. Unlock the heavy glass door with the key that had worn a permanent groove in my pocket. Flip the sign from “CLOSED” to “OPEN.” Turn on the lights that hummed for three seconds before flooding the space with their harsh, fluorescent glow. Start the industrial coffee maker that gurgled and hissed like a living thing. Arrange the cups in perfect rows behind the counter—small, medium, large, each in its designated spot. Wipe down tables that were already clean because I’d wiped them the night before. Check the pastry case, though I knew exactly what was there because I’d filled it myself.
The routine was my anchor. The sameness was comforting in a way I couldn’t explain to people who’d never needed that kind of comfort. After my daughter died three years ago—a car accident, sudden and senseless, the kind of tragedy that makes you understand how fragile everything is—I’d needed the routine desperately. Needed something that didn’t change, didn’t surprise, didn’t hurt.
The café was called Margaret’s, named after my grandmother, though I’d owned it for twelve years and she’d been gone for fifteen. It sat on a quiet street corner in a neighborhood that had once been working-class and was now caught in that uncomfortable transition toward something more expensive. The regulars who’d been coming for years were gradually being replaced by younger people with laptops and expensive headphones, who ordered complicated drinks and stayed for hours nursing a single cup.
I didn’t mind the change. Change was inevitable, my therapist had told me, in the careful tone therapists use when they’re trying to help you accept something you don’t want to accept. What mattered was the routine. The predictability. The knowledge that I could get through another day by simply doing the same things I’d done yesterday.
The morning rush started around seven—construction workers grabbing coffee to go, nurses finishing night shifts, early commuters who’d learned that my coffee was better and cheaper than the Starbucks two blocks over. I knew most of them by name, knew their orders by heart. Tom wanted black coffee, no sugar, in a large cup even though he only drank half of it. Sarah got a cappuccino with an extra shot and always left exactly two dollars in the tip jar. Miguel ordered tea—Earl Grey, with honey—and read the newspaper at table three for exactly thirty minutes before heading to his job at the post office.
The routine. The sameness. The comfort of knowing what came next.
And then, on a Tuesday morning in late September, the boy appeared.
He came in at exactly 7:15, slipping through the door so quietly that I almost didn’t hear the bell. He was small—maybe ten years old, though it was hard to tell because he carried himself with a heaviness that made him seem both younger and older at the same time. His backpack looked enormous on his small frame, stuffed so full that the zipper strained against the contents. His clothes were clean but worn, jeans that had been washed so many times they’d faded to almost white at the knees, a jacket that was slightly too small, as if he’d grown since someone had bought it for him.
He walked directly to the corner table—the one in the back that nobody ever wanted because it was too far from the counter and too close to the bathroom—and sat down with his backpack still on his shoulders, as if he might need to leave quickly.
I gave him a few minutes, finishing up with the morning rush, before approaching his table with my order pad. “What can I get you, sweetheart?”
He looked up at me with dark, serious eyes that held none of the lightness that children’s eyes should hold. “Just water, please.”
“Just water? Are you sure? We’ve got some great muffins fresh this morning. Chocolate chip.”
“Just water is fine. Thank you.”
There was something in the careful politeness, in the way he kept his hands folded on the table, that made my chest tighten. I brought him water in a real glass, not the plastic cups I usually used for water orders, and set it down gently.
“You let me know if you change your mind about that muffin,” I said.
He nodded but didn’t look at me again, his gaze fixed somewhere in the middle distance, at nothing in particular.
He stayed for exactly forty-five minutes, sipping his water slowly, making it last. When he left, he pushed his chair in carefully and threw his napkin away in the trash can by the door. And he didn’t come back.
Until the next morning. Same time, 7:15. Same table. Same backpack. Same order—just water, please.
And the morning after that. And the morning after that.
By the fifth morning, I’d started anticipating his arrival, watching the clock as it crept toward 7:15, feeling an odd sense of relief when the bell rang and he slipped through the door. He never varied his routine—same table, same water, same forty-five minutes of silent sitting. He did homework sometimes, pulling out notebooks that looked like they’d seen better days, writing in pencil with careful, neat handwriting. Sometimes he just sat, staring at nothing, his small hands wrapped around the water glass as if drawing warmth from it even though the water was cold.
I started to wonder about him. Where were his parents? Why did he come to a café every morning instead of eating breakfast at home? Why did he only order water when there was a bakery case full of pastries just begging to be eaten?
On the fifteenth morning—I’d been counting, though I couldn’t have said why—I made a decision. I prepared a plate of pancakes, the good kind with butter already melting into the stack and warm maple syrup in a small pitcher on the side. I walked to his table with the same casual confidence I’d use for any other order and set it down in front of him.
“Made too many by accident,” I said, keeping my voice light. “Can’t let them go to waste. Would you mind helping me out?”
He stared at the pancakes for a long moment, then looked up at me with those serious dark eyes. “I can’t pay for these.”
“Didn’t ask you to. I said I made them by accident. You’d actually be doing me a favor—health code says I can’t serve them to another customer if they’ve been sitting out, and I hate waste.”
The lie was transparent, but I delivered it with enough confidence that he couldn’t quite challenge it. He looked at the pancakes again, and I saw his throat move as he swallowed.
“Thank you,” he said quietly.
“You’re welcome, sweetheart.”
I went back to the counter and busied myself with other tasks, but I kept him in my peripheral vision. He ate slowly, cutting each bite into precise squares, chewing carefully as if the food were precious. He finished everything—even scraped up the last bit of syrup with his fork—and when he left, he pushed his chair in even more carefully than usual.
The next morning, I made him scrambled eggs and toast. “Someone ordered breakfast and then had to leave for an emergency. You’d be saving me from throwing it out.”
“Thank you.”
The morning after, a blueberry muffin and orange juice. “Experimenting with a new recipe. Need someone to tell me if it’s good enough to add to the menu.”
“Thank you. It’s really good.”
The morning after that, a bagel with cream cheese and a banana. “Supply order mixup. Got way more than I needed.”
“Thank you.”
We fell into a routine within the routine. He’d arrive at 7:15. I’d bring him water first, then wait a few minutes before delivering whatever breakfast I’d prepared, always with some excuse that let him accept it without feeling like charity. He’d eat carefully, finish everything, and leave at exactly 8:00, pushing his chair in and throwing away his napkin.
He never told me his name. Never explained why he was alone. Never asked for anything beyond that first glass of water. But he always said thank you, and there was a sincerity in it that made those two words feel like a prayer.
After three weeks, I’d started preparing his breakfast automatically, no longer bothering to invent elaborate excuses. I’d simply bring the food to his table, and he’d simply accept it, and we’d both pretend this was normal, that this was how things had always been and always would be.
Sarah, one of my regulars, cornered me at the counter one morning after the boy had left. “That kid who comes in every day. What’s his story?”
“Just a regular customer,” I said, wiping down the espresso machine with more force than necessary.
“He’s a kid, Claire. Kids don’t come to cafés alone every morning. Where are his parents?”
“I don’t know. He doesn’t talk much.”
“Are you feeding him? I’ve noticed you bringing him food.”
“He’s a paying customer,” I lied.
Sarah gave me a look that said she didn’t believe me but wasn’t going to push it. “You’ve got a good heart. But you should be careful. There are rules about that kind of thing. What if management finds out?”
“I am management,” I pointed out. “I own this place.”
“You know what I mean. Child services, welfare checks, that kind of thing. If he’s in trouble, there are people who are supposed to help.”
“Maybe he doesn’t need that kind of help. Maybe he just needs breakfast.”
Sarah sighed. “Just be careful, okay?”
But I wasn’t careful. I couldn’t be. Because every morning when that boy walked through my door, I saw something that made my chest ache in a way that was both painful and necessary. I saw a child who was trying to be invisible, who was carrying something heavy that children shouldn’t have to carry, who was surviving in whatever way he could manage.
I saw someone who needed the routine as much as I did.
So every morning, I fed him. Pancakes, eggs, muffins, bagels, fruit, juice—whatever I could prepare that would give him fuel for the day. He never asked for more, never took advantage, never showed up at any time other than his designated 7:15. He existed in his corner table like a small, quiet ghost, there but not there, part of the café’s rhythm but separate from it.
And every morning, he said thank you with a sincerity that made me believe in something I’d stopped believing in after my daughter died—that small acts of kindness mattered, that showing up mattered, that being present for another human being mattered even if you didn’t know their whole story.
Six weeks after he’d first appeared, I got brave enough to ask his name.
“Adam,” he said quietly. “My name is Adam.”
“I’m Claire. It’s nice to officially meet you, Adam.”
He almost smiled. Not quite, but almost. “Thank you for the breakfasts, Claire.”
“You’re welcome, Adam. Every single time.”
The routine continued. Fall turned toward winter. The leaves that had been green when Adam first appeared turned gold, then brown, then fell and were swept away. I put away the outdoor seating and brought out the space heaters. The morning light came later and later, so that by November, Adam was arriving in near-darkness, his breath visible in the cold air when he pushed through the door.
I started keeping a jacket behind the counter—a blue fleece that had belonged to my daughter, that I’d kept because I couldn’t bear to give away but couldn’t bear to look at either. One particularly cold morning, when Adam arrived shivering, I offered it to him.
“Someone left this here,” I said. “You can borrow it while you’re here. Keep you warm.”
He hesitated, his hands reaching for the jacket and then pulling back. “I can’t—”
“It’s just a loaner. You’ll give it back when you leave. No big deal.”
He took it carefully, reverently, and pulled it on. It was too big, the sleeves hanging past his hands, but he looked warmer immediately. When he left that morning, he tried to return it.
“Keep it for tomorrow,” I said. “Save me having to store it.”
The next morning, he wore his own jacket but carried the blue fleece carefully folded in his arms. He handed it back to me at the end of his visit, the fabric warm from being held close.
“Thank you,” he said.
“See you tomorrow, Adam.”
“See you tomorrow, Claire.”
That became part of the routine too—the jacket exchange, the borrowed warmth, the small connection that meant more than either of us said.
December arrived with a cold snap that made the café’s heating system struggle to keep up. I started making Adam hot chocolate along with his breakfast, thick and rich with real cocoa and a mountain of whipped cream. He drank it slowly, making it last, his small hands wrapped around the mug.
It was during the second week of December—a Wednesday morning, gray and threatening snow—that Adam did something he’d never done before. He spoke without being spoken to first.
“Claire?” His voice was quiet, almost lost in the ambient noise of the café.
“Yes, sweetheart?”
“Why do you do this? The food, I mean. You don’t know me.”
I sat down across from him, something I’d never done before, respecting the invisible boundary he’d drawn around his corner table. “Why do you think I do it?”
He looked down at his hot chocolate, at the whipped cream melting into the dark liquid. “My mom used to say that some people see things that need doing and they just do them. She said those were the best kind of people.”
It was the first time he’d mentioned family, and I felt the weight of it—the past tense, the careful way he said it. “Your mom sounds like she was a smart woman.”
“She was.” Still past tense. Still careful. “She died two years ago. Cancer.”
“I’m sorry, Adam. That’s really hard.”
“My dad’s been deployed. Military. He left right after she died. Said he had to because we needed the money.” Adam’s hands tightened on the mug. “He’s supposed to come back in January. He calls when he can, but it’s not very often.”
The pieces were falling into place, creating a picture I’d suspected but hadn’t wanted to confirm. “Who takes care of you while he’s gone?”
“My aunt. My mom’s sister. She’s okay, I guess. She works a lot. Night shifts at the hospital. So I’m alone in the mornings.”
“Is that why you come here?”
He nodded slowly. “It’s quieter than being at home. And…” He trailed off, looking embarrassed.
“And?”
“And you’re nice. You make me feel like I matter. Like someone sees me.”
The words hit me like a physical blow, stealing my breath. I thought about my daughter, about how I’d failed to see her struggling until it was too late, about all the mornings I’d been too busy with the café to really pay attention. About how much I’d give for one more morning with her, to have the chance to see her, really see her, the way Adam needed to be seen.
“You do matter, Adam,” I said, my voice rough with emotion I hadn’t given myself permission to feel in a long time. “You matter very much. And I do see you. Every morning at 7:15, I see you.”
He looked up at me then, and for the first time since I’d met him, his eyes held something other than careful wariness. They held hope, fragile and tentative, like a bird landing on an outstretched hand.
“Thank you, Claire.”
“You’re welcome, Adam. Every single time.”
On Thursday, December 19th, Adam didn’t come.
I noticed immediately, of course. My body had been trained to the rhythm of his arrival, attuned to the bell at 7:15, expecting the small figure with the too-heavy backpack. When the clock hit 7:20 and he hadn’t appeared, I felt the first flutter of concern. By 7:30, I was watching the door constantly, neglecting my other customers. By 7:45, I was genuinely worried.
I told myself there were a thousand reasonable explanations. He was sick. His aunt had the day off. His school had an early event. But none of those explanations quieted the unease that had settled in my chest like a stone.
Friday, he didn’t come either. I made his breakfast anyway—pancakes with strawberries, his favorite—and it sat on the counter, cooling, uneaten. I wrapped it up and put it in the fridge, telling myself he’d come over the weekend, that he’d appreciate having extra food.
Saturday, still no Adam. The blue fleece hung on its hook behind the counter, waiting. The corner table stayed empty. The routine was broken, and I felt it like a physical wound, the absence of him more present than his presence had ever been.
Sunday morning, I arrived at six as always, but my hands were shaking as I unlocked the door. Something was wrong. I knew it the way you know when a storm is coming, when the air pressure changes and the animals go quiet.
I was arranging cups, trying to force my hands to steady, when I heard them. Engines. Multiple vehicles, powerful and official-sounding. I looked out the front window and felt my heart stutter.
Four black SUVs had pulled up in front of the café, arranged with the precision of a military convoy. Men in uniform were emerging—not police, I realized, but military. Army dress uniforms, formal and solemn. They moved with synchronized purpose, and they were coming toward my door.
The bell chimed. Six men entered, and the café went silent. The few early customers I had stopped mid-sip, mid-bite, mid-conversation. The only sound was the hiss of the espresso machine and the hammer of my heart.
The lead officer removed his cap as he approached the counter. He was older, maybe fifty, with gray at his temples and eyes that had seen things he wished he hadn’t. “Ma’am, are you Claire Morrison? Owner of this establishment?”
“Yes.” My voice came out as a whisper. “What’s this about?”
“Ma’am, we need to speak with you about a young boy. Adam Reeves. We understand you’ve been—” he paused, seeming to choose his words carefully, “—providing care for him in the mornings.”
The stone in my chest became a boulder. “Is he okay? Is Adam okay?”
“Perhaps we could speak privately?”
“No. Tell me now. Is he alive?”
“He’s alive, ma’am. He’s safe. But I need to give you something.” The officer reached into his uniform jacket and pulled out an envelope, official and sealed. “This is from his father. Sergeant First Class David Reeves. He asked us to deliver it to you personally.”
My hands were numb as I took the envelope. It was heavier than it should have been, as if grief had physical weight. “His father? But Adam said he was deployed.”
“He was, ma’am. In Afghanistan. He was killed in action three days ago. December 16th. IED attack on his convoy. He…” The officer’s voice cracked slightly. “He was writing this letter when they were hit. He finished it in the field hospital before he died. He made us promise to deliver it to you.”
The envelope slipped from my hands, landing on the counter with a sound that seemed too loud, too final. My legs stopped working. Someone—Sarah, one of the regulars—caught me before I hit the floor, guided me to a chair.
“Ma’am, I know this is a shock,” the officer said gently. “But Sergeant Reeves wanted you to know. He wanted you to understand what you did for his son.”
I couldn’t speak. Couldn’t breathe properly. I picked up the envelope with shaking hands and opened it. The letter inside was written in pencil, the handwriting becoming shakier toward the end, as if the writer was running out of time. There were stains on the paper that might have been water or might have been blood.
Dear Claire Morrison,
I hope the officers deliver this to the right person. My son Adam has told me about you in every phone call we’ve had for the last three months. About the woman at the café who feeds him breakfast. Who sees him. Who makes him feel like he matters.
I’m writing this because I don’t think I’m going to make it home. I can feel it. They say I will, but I know. And before I go, I need you to know what you’ve done.
When my wife died two years ago, something broke in Adam. He stopped smiling. Stopped talking much. Just went through the motions of living without really being alive. I had to take this deployment because we needed the money, needed the benefits, needed everything the Army could give us. It killed me to leave him, but I had no choice.
I called him whenever I could. The conversations were always short, always the same. Until three months ago. Suddenly, he was talking. Actually talking. About this woman at the café who made him pancakes. Who gave him hot chocolate. Who lent him a blue jacket that he said smelled like home.
He said you made him feel visible again. Said you looked at him like he was someone worth seeing.
Do you understand what that means? To a father ten thousand miles away, helpless to comfort his grieving child? To know that someone was there, that someone was watching over my son, that someone cared?
You saved him, Claire. When I couldn’t be there, you were. You fed him. Saw him. Made him matter. You gave him the one thing I couldn’t give him from so far away—the feeling that someone still remembered he existed.
I looked you up. I know about your daughter. I know you understand loss. Maybe that’s why you saw my son. Because you know what it’s like to disappear into grief, to feel invisible.
Thank you doesn’t cover it. There aren’t words that cover it. But thank you for the breakfast. Thank you for the jacket. Thank you for seeing my son when he needed to be seen. Thank you for keeping him alive in all the ways that matter beyond just breathing.
If you’re reading this, I’m gone. Adam will need people like you more than ever. His aunt Julie is a good woman, but she’s overwhelmed. His grandparents are too old to take him. I’ve arranged for him to be cared for by Marcus Chen, my best friend and fellow soldier. Marcus lost his own son years ago. He and Adam will save each other, I think.
But Adam will remember you. He’ll remember the woman who fed a lonely boy. Who saw him. Who made him matter. And that memory will help him understand that the world still has good people in it, people who care, people who show up.
Thank you, Claire Morrison. Thank you for my son.
Sergeant First Class David Reeves December 16, 2024 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
I finished reading through tears I didn’t remember starting to shed. The café was completely silent now, every eye on me, every person holding their breath. When I looked up, I saw that the officer who’d handed me the letter had tears on his own cheeks.
“Ma’am,” he said quietly, “Sergeant Reeves was a hero. Saved three men from his unit before…” He stopped, collected himself. “His final wish was that this letter reach you. He died believing you’d understand. That you’d continue to see his son.”
“Where is Adam now?” I managed to ask.
“With Marcus Chen, as the letter said. They’ve been staying at the base while arrangements are made. Adam asked specifically if he could come see you. With your permission.”
“Yes. God, yes. Bring him here. Please.”
The officer nodded to one of the other men, who stepped outside. Through the window, I saw another vehicle, a regular sedan this time. And emerging from it, accompanied by a man in civilian clothes, was Adam.
He looked smaller than I remembered. More fragile. But when he saw me through the window, his face transformed. He broke away from the man and ran toward the door, and I was already moving, meeting him halfway as he crashed into me.
“Claire,” he sobbed into my shoulder. “Claire, he’s gone. My dad’s gone.”
“I know, sweetheart. I know. I’m so sorry.”
“He wrote about you. Did they give you the letter? He wrote it before he died. He wanted you to know. He wanted you to know what you did.”
“I know, Adam. I know.”
We stood there in the doorway of my café, this child and this woman, both of us orphaned by loss, both of us saved by routine, by showing up, by being seen. And I held him while he cried for his father, for his mother, for everything he’d lost. I held him the way I wished someone had held my daughter when she’d needed it. I held him and I let him break because sometimes the kindest thing you can do is let someone shatter in your arms and help them collect the pieces after.
Marcus Chen introduced himself quietly, standing at a respectful distance until Adam’s sobs had subsided into hiccups. He was in his forties, with kind eyes and hands scarred by work and war.
“Adam talks about you constantly,” he said. “About the pancakes and the hot chocolate and the blue jacket. About how you made him feel like he mattered.”
“He does matter,” I said fiercely, my hand still on Adam’s shoulder. “He matters more than he knows.”
“David—Sergeant Reeves—he talked about you too. Called you Adam’s guardian angel. Said he prayed every night that you’d still be here when he got back, that you’d still be seeing his son.” Marcus’s voice roughened. “I wish he’d made it back. But knowing you were here… it gave him peace. At the end, it gave him peace.”
The weeks that followed were a blur of funeral arrangements and paperwork and grief that felt too big to be contained in such small spaces. Adam and Marcus stayed in town through Christmas, renting a small apartment near the base. And every morning at 7:15, Adam came to the café.
Sometimes he came alone. Sometimes Marcus came with him. But always, I had breakfast ready. Always, I had the blue jacket waiting. Always, I saw him.
We talked about his father. About his mother. About the life he’d had and the life he’d lost and the life he was trying to figure out how to build. Marcus talked about his own son, killed in a training accident five years earlier, about how he’d thought he’d never be able to care about another child again.
“David saved my life,” Marcus told me one morning while Adam was in the bathroom. “Not in combat—I mean he actually, physically saved me when I was ready to end it all after my son died. And with his last breath, he asked me to take care of Adam. Said we’d save each other.” He looked at the boy’s empty chair. “He was right. I don’t know how to be a father anymore. I’m out of practice. But that kid… he makes me want to remember.”
“You’re doing good,” I assured him. “You showed up. That’s what matters.”
“That’s what David said about you in his letter. That you showed up. That it saved Adam’s life as much as it saved his spirit.”
I thought about my daughter, about all the mornings I hadn’t shown up, too busy with the café, too focused on the routine to see that she was drowning. About how I’d learned too late that sometimes the most important thing you can do is simply be present.
“I’m just making pancakes,” I said.
“You’re doing a lot more than that,” Marcus said. “And Adam knows it. I know it. David knew it.”
In January, Marcus and Adam moved to Virginia, near Marcus’s family and close to the military benefits and support systems Adam would need. Before they left, Marcus gave me a photograph—Adam sitting on the grass beside a man in uniform, both of them smiling at the camera.
“That was taken three months before David died,” Marcus said. “He wanted you to have it. Wanted you to see what your mornings meant. Look at Adam’s face. Really look.”
I looked. And I saw it—the smile wasn’t forced or faked. It was real. The smile of a child who felt seen, who felt like he mattered, who felt like the world still had good in it.
“Thank you,” I whispered.
“No,” Marcus said firmly. “Thank you. For seeing him. For showing up. For teaching him that there are still people who care about lonely boys who just need breakfast.”
Adam hugged me goodbye with a fierceness that spoke of all the words he didn’t know how to say. “I’ll write,” he promised. “Every week. And maybe I can visit sometimes?”
“You better,” I said, trying to smile through tears. “This café is your café now. Table in the corner is permanently reserved for a boy named Adam who taught me how to show up again.”
That was three years ago. Adam is thirteen now, thriving with Marcus and Marcus’s family. He writes every week like he promised—long letters about school and friends and the therapy he’s getting and the ways he’s learning to carry his grief without letting it crush him. He visits twice a year, always staying for a week, always coming to the café every morning at 7:15.
The blue jacket hangs on its hook behind the counter. I never put it away. Sometimes other kids borrow it—children who come in cold, who need warmth, who need to be seen. I’ve started a program, completely informal, where kids who need breakfast can come in and get it. No questions asked. No excuses needed. Just food and warmth and a place to be seen.
I call it Adam’s Table. Marcus sends me money sometimes to help fund it, but he doesn’t need to—the regular customers have started contributing, leaving extra tips with notes that say “for the kids” or “for Adam’s Table.” The program has fed over a hundred children in three years. None of them know about Sergeant Reeves or his letter. But they know that someone sees them. That someone cares. That they matter.
Sergeant Reeves’s letter hangs on the wall behind the counter, protected in a frame, next to a photo of my daughter. Two people I loved and lost, both of them teaching me the same lesson: that the most important thing you can do is show up. See people. Make them know they matter.
Every morning at 7:15, I still look at the door. Sometimes it’s Adam, visiting from Virginia. Sometimes it’s other lonely children, finding their way to a place where they know they’ll be seen. Sometimes it’s no one at all, and the table in the corner stays empty.
But I’m there. Every morning, I’m there. Making pancakes. Keeping the coffee hot. Keeping the blue jacket ready. Showing up for whoever needs to be seen.
Because that’s what David Reeves died believing I would do. That’s what Adam needs to know I’ll keep doing. That’s what my daughter would want me to understand—that I can’t change the past, but I can show up for the present. That I can’t bring back the people I’ve lost, but I can see the people who are still here.
The routine that once saved me from grief now serves a different purpose. It’s not about making the days the same anymore. It’s about making sure that every lonely child who walks through my door knows that someone sees them. That they matter. That they are not invisible.
Every morning at 7:15, I wait. And whoever comes through that door—Adam, or another lonely child, or even no one at all—I’m ready.
I’m ready to show up. To see. To feed the lonely. To honor the memory of a soldier who died believing I would.
I’m ready to prove, one breakfast at a time, that his belief was not misplaced.
That I will always show up.
Always.
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