I adopted my best friend’s son after he abandoned him — years later, the boy invited him to a championship game and gave a speech that made me break down.

And that’s the only message my son ever sent that man.

There is a letter from a lawyer named Marguerite Ossler now, and it did not go any further than a letter, because Grady’s own lawyers presumably watched the video like everybody else.

Amari committed on the eleventh of April, to a school ninety minutes from my house. He had two offers further away that were, on paper, better.

I fought him about it for a week. I lost.

He said one thing that ended it, which was: “You worked six days a week until I was eight. You get to see the games.”

He is eighteen and he has learned exactly how to do that to me.

I still work at Tulley’s. I own a third of it now; Dev Tulley sold me in over four years and it’s the best money I ever spent.

Neve and I got married in June. She has been in this since 2021 and Amari gave a toast that was mostly about her, which was the correct call.