OAKLAND PARK: The Bread cannot become Dough again

In November 2002, in a Fort Lauderdale Burger King, a thirty-something man with a drinking problem and a one-way ticket to nowhere sits across from a seventeen-year-old girl cradling a four-week-old baby. Her name is Tat. Her mother is dying. She orders a Whopper Jr. and counts out exact change.
What begins as an unlikely connection becomes four years of real love-difficult, tender, complicated love, the kind forged between two people navigating grief, poverty, and the particular ache of wan...