The Father Who Never Stopped Leaving the Porch Light On

In 2019, a journalist in Nashville profiled a man named David Chen who had kept his front porch light on every single night for eleven years. His daughter, Mei, had left home at seventeen after a bitter argument, severing all contact. Friends told David to move on. His sister said he was torturing himself. But every evening, David replaced the bulb if it flickered, swept the porch steps, and left the door unlocked.…