The kindness of strangers: After losing my wife and son, I ate alone one Father’s Day – and another diner paid my bill

I went out into the car park to see if I could spot anyone nearby who might have just left the restaurant Read more in the kindness of strangers series I lost my wife in 2020 and my son in 2021. A few years later, I was living alone in a retirement complex when I decided to go out one night for dinner. There was a little Vietnamese restaurant nearby that my wife and I used to frequent, which had excellent food and held many happy memories. It just so happened to be Father’s Day. I dined alo...

By Allen Renfrey, as told to Katie Cunningham