[There's a certain emphasis on the word that Connor's sure Tim won't understand, but it leals through anyway. He didn't play sports for him, every effort he made in that category was in a desperate attempt to please his father. He learned how to catch. He learned to swim. He tried, with increasing desperation to do anything to make up for the things about him that didn't quite match up to his father's expectations.
After a certain point, though, he realized it wasn't worth trying at all.]
He wanted me to learn baseball, so I did. I played baseball for four years and he showed up to my games at first. But then he stopped, and for a while I believed his excuses of being busy but nobody's so busy they miss your entire season two years in a row. So I quit, and four years later he tells me we should play catch on Sundays. I told him I'd believe it when he actually made the time. He never did.
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[There's a certain emphasis on the word that Connor's sure Tim won't understand, but it leals through anyway. He didn't play sports for him, every effort he made in that category was in a desperate attempt to please his father. He learned how to catch. He learned to swim. He tried, with increasing desperation to do anything to make up for the things about him that didn't quite match up to his father's expectations.
After a certain point, though, he realized it wasn't worth trying at all.]
He wanted me to learn baseball, so I did. I played baseball for four years and he showed up to my games at first. But then he stopped, and for a while I believed his excuses of being busy but nobody's so busy they miss your entire season two years in a row. So I quit, and four years later he tells me we should play catch on Sundays. I told him I'd believe it when he actually made the time. He never did.