Jason’s Advice
Jason, noticing my distraction, leaned back with a more serious look. “You need to talk to her, you know? Sometimes things just need to be hashed out,” he said, raising his eyebrow in that familiar way he did when offering advice. He wasn’t wrong—I couldn’t let the weight of this morning’s argument hang over us forever. Emily wasn’t part of today, but maybe that didn’t mean she had to be shut out from it entirely.
Jason’s Advice
Movie Tradition
With our plates cleared and the conversation tapering off, we decided to keep with tradition and watch my brother’s favorite movie, just as we did every year. It was a comforting ritual, a way of keeping his spirit close. “You know he’d be quoting every line,” Jason chuckled as we headed toward the theater. As the familiar story unfolded on the screen, it felt like closure—an unbroken thread tying past and present together.
Movie Tradition
