…should've done it when it happened,
But I didn't, 'cause back then,
There were issues I had to work out with myself,
And besides that,
Kathleen telling me she was afraid of what I was gonna do, well…
That didn't exactly help.
But there's no statute of limitations on being a bad parent.
That much, I've seen over and over again.
You think the things you do stop having an effect after a while,
But they don't.
Like this one.
How the hell are people gonna sit there and watch these kids drink,
When they know they're underage?
Some lessons don't need to be learned the hard way.
But some lessons are, anyway.
Like this one.
Can't believe I walked into that service and said what I did, but
Those kids needed to hear it from someone, and
If they weren't going to hear it from their own parents,
They might as well hear it from me.
Half expected Liv to say something about it, but…she didn't.
'Least she agrees with me.
And sitting across from my own daughter then, well…
She's about to hit nineteen, and it's almost been two years,
Better now than never, even if she doesn't exactly look
All that happy about it, but that's her problem,
Not mine.
All I want is to keep her safe.
And if this is the only way to do it, then so be it.
She asks me why I did that, and
I look back at her for a long moment, realizing suddenly
Exactly how much she's grown up.
She's not a baby anymore, in the physical sense,
But she's still mine, and after a minute, I tell her, about this case,
And when she looks at me again, I know she gets it.