I read this Father’s Day op-ed and I have a couple of questions. They relate to the following passage:

[T]his Father’s Day, like every Father’s Day, I’ll relive the last time I saw him. My mother was in the hospital recovering from surgery. And Dad was on the kitchen floor having sex with another woman. I found them. He went for his heart. I thought he was faking. By the time I realized he was dying and tried to help him, it was too late.

At the end, I remember a tear rolling slowly across his cheek. His eyes opened wide. I bent forward and whispered, “I love you.” He slowly reached for my hand just as he had done years ago on that ride home from Little League tryouts. And at that instant, we both experienced the pain and madness of love. Then he was gone.

That night, I shot my first bag of heroin.

Far be it from me to suggest that this sequence did not happen exactly as described. I do, however, have some questions.

(1) During the death scene, what was happening with the other woman? Are we to understand that father and son both experienced the “pain and madness of love” while father was still on top of mistress? (And what was she experiencing?)

(2) Where did the writer get his first bag of heroin so quickly?  Because if he shot it that very night, he would have had to hustle, for someone who had never shot heroin before, and whose father had just died, on top of another woman, who would have had to get a ride home first, probably.