The lobby was nearly empty, the silence of the late hour broken only by the frantic, rhythmic tapping of a father’s fingers against the reception desk. Beside him, his teenage daughter slumped against a suitcase, her eyes glassy with exhaustion and her posture betraying a bone-deep weariness that seemed to vibrate through the entire room. When the desk clerk looked up, she didn’t see a typical vacationing family; she saw a pair of people clearly in the midst of a crisis that… Continue reading…