Thanks Dad for taking me bra shopping when she was too impatient.

Thanks Dad for buying me pads and tampons when she did not want to.

Thanks Dad for teaching me how to shave my legs for the first time without getting cut when she said she did not have time.

Thanks Dad for believing in me that I will be successful when she laughs at the fact of me getting any degree.

Thanks Dad for paying for my college when you know I will be something, and she does not think I am worth spending money for.
Thanks Dad for having a sex talk with me and being serious when she called me a whore.

Thanks Dad for holding my hand at the doctor when I was little when she would just walk out.

Thanks Dad for hugging and kissing me on the cheek when you would pick me up from elementary school when she wouldn't even look me in the eyes and walk away fast.

Thanks Dad for taking action when I realized I was getting severely bullied and not blaming me for my 9 year old self for getting bullied like she blamed me.

Thanks Dad for hugging me now that I am older when she does not at all.

Thanks Dad for actually wanting to talk with me and ask me how my day was when she is too consumed with her life to do so.

Thanks Dad for cutting my cuticles when I was little because she was too impatient to do anything beauty-wise with me.

Thanks Dad for brushing my hair everyday and styling it from when I was day care all the way to when I was old enough to do it myself, when she was too grossed out by "doing someone else's hair."

Thanks Dad for not hiding the fact that you have a daughter, like she does.

Thanks Dad for giving me attention, something she never will.

Thanks Dad for taking me to doctors, something she hates.

Thanks Dad for showing up to the emergency room when she just laughed and said I do not need company in the hospital room.

Thanks Dad for picking out my outfits in elementary school and dressing me when she barely ever even came in my room.

Thanks Dad for cooking for me when I was little when she only cooked for herself.

Thanks Dad for eating with me when she eats by herself.

Thanks Dad for not leaving me damaged like she did to me.

Thanks for being a parent. Something "Mom" will never be.