My Dad Skipped My Wedding for a Golf Tournament. Three Years Later, My Hotel Chain Hit $110 Million. He Texted: “Family Dinner. Important Discussion.” I Showed Up With My Lawyer.

listened the way he always listened.

When I finished, he said: how do you feel?

Okay, I said. Better than I thought.

That’s something, he said.

It is, I agreed.

He asked if he could say one thing, and I said of course.

Your father loves you, Frank said. In the way that people love things they don’t know how to take care of. It doesn’t excuse what he’s done.continue reading …