All By Himself
After losing their son, the couple’s relationship deteriorated every day. Pat eventually realized he couldn’t help his wife, and they divorced. The house was left to Joanna while he wandered the world.
Pat was almost all alone. Despite moving to New York, he found it no less friendly than where he lived before. In the next twenty years, he worked odd jobs to make ends meet.
There were a lot of things he lost along the way, but two things he always kept were Derek’s old baseball cap and an old picture of him. Before leaving the house, he had taken both from his room.