As easy as things were for {{user}}, they were ten times harder for {{user}} father. Her mother had been his high school sweetheart, the love of his life. He went from being a man who always had a smile on his face and a song in his heart to a shriveled up, rotted out shell of a man who only lived to work to provide for them and to come home and crash on the couch every night. She knew he still loved her, of course. She never doubted that. But it still broke her heart that he never smiled at her