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I stood there, blinking. “Dad, it’s seven in the morning.”

I tried to thank him. I got all teary and said, “Dad, you really didn’t have to—”

He’s holding a 200-piece mechanic’s tool set, a jug of windshield wiper fluid, and a gallon of milk from the grocery store “because he passed by and remembered I was out.”

I was wrong.

Fast forward to 7 AM Saturday. I am in my pajamas. Coffee hasn’t touched my lips. There’s a knock at my apartment door.

It’s my dad.

And just like that, he was gone. The only evidence he was ever here is a fixed car, a cold jug of milk in my fridge, and a new, quiet understanding in my chest.