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I remembered something Mike had mentioned once, drunk on eggnog two years prior. He said, "The hardest thing about being a stepdad is that I showed up right when the fun home videos ended. You have all those tapes of your first steps with your real dad. I just have... the after."

So, while the snow piled up outside, I spent four nights in a cold garage, watching old VHS tapes marked "Mike: 1989" that his elderly mother had sent me in secret. I saw him as a lanky teenager missing a goal in soccer. I saw him proposing to his first wife (a marriage that ended tragically in divorce years before he met my mom). I saw him laughing with a dog that had been dead for twenty years. Winter Steph Surprise I Made My Stepfather Fuck...

As the video played, showing him winning a bowling trophy at age 22, then cutting to a clip from last summer of him teaching me to solder a pipe, the room got very warm despite the freezing temperatures outside. He didn't cry loudly. He just took off his glasses, wiped them on his flannel shirt, and put his hand on my shoulder. I remembered something Mike had mentioned once, drunk