“Funeral arrangements for who?!”

Mike Monteiro answers the question “How do you lovingly care for an aging parent who treated you like shit?” by writing about his own father; in part:

Speaking of which; the last thing my father told me was to go fuck myself. This happened on the phone a few years ago, during a call with my mother. I heard her turn away from the phone and ask him if he wanted to say hello. I heard him reply in the background. Tell him to go fuck himself. And that was that.

Death does not make saints, and I have neither the desire nor the power for beatification tonight.

Read the whole thing. It’s not a Hollywood script, but there is hope in it.

Monteiro closes his piece with:

Please donate to Trans Lifeline, and for fuck sake, if there is a trans kid in your life please love them. They are so so so so ready to love you back.

Please heed those words; it’s true.