I listened to it all the way through.
Then I opened a different contact.
The one at the top of my list that was not at the top because of frequency of contact but because of what it represented, what it had always represented, the specific authority that sat above all other authority in my professional and personal life and that I had been navigating since I was old enough to understand what navigating meant.
Antonio Salvatore.
My father.
I attached the recording.
I did not write a message to accompany it. I did not provide context or explanation or framing. My father was not a man who needed things explained to him and he was not a man who appreciated the implication that he did. He would listen to the recording and he would understand everything it contained and he would form his c
