What you leave behind says as much about you as what you bring along.

The past is somewhere we can walk with our memories
Never with our footsteps

You can do this.

... I realized that my father had learned something in his recovery that I still hadn't totally grasped: the past would only fester and eat away at us if we tried to hold on to it too tightly.

But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on just eats your life away.

Sometimes in life you've got to Ctrl, Alt, Delete and let go.