Dear Miles, Happy 16th birthday, my love. Sixteen. Somehow the years have carried us from buckling you into the backseat to watching you reach for the driver’s seat. From holding your small hand in parking lots to trusting you with the road ahead. You stand at this edge between boyhood and manhood with a quiet strength, a deep heart, and a goodness that humbles me every day. There’s a line I love that says, you are the sky, and everything else is just the weather. The storms,

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