"I wasn't lonely when I was a young man, but when I married your ma I knew the loneliest 40 years of my life. Since she passed, I ain't been lonely at all. Do you think God will send me to Hell?"
My pa had carried hellish guilt most of his life. I touched him on the shoulder. "We're all different, Pa. All you did was be who you really are." I turned and left Pa to his thoughts. Later, he gave me a half-smile at the supper table.