I Love You, Mom. I Love You, Too.

"This all happened nearly 16 years ago, and I still can't talk or think about it without tearing up," he says. "To an extent that trauma just becomes a part of you. It's not debilitating, but it's always there, like the scar left behind after a deep wound" He writes: "Rather than suffer the embarrassment of being grown man in tears, I just shut my mouth."