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To The Father Who Left Me

I don't miss you anymore

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We haven’t spoken in a long time. I miss you occasionally and wish I could tell you all of the things going on in my life, but you didn’t choose me. I was never really an option for you, she was. She has been around for what, 6 years or so? It took less than 6 years to lose the one person who loved you more than life itself.

I hope your daughter is well, she has such a fun energy to her, so much spirit and laughter. Don’t take that from her as you did from me. Go to her performances, talent shows, show and tell’s. Don’t miss what you missed with me. She is counting on you to be there, to be her best friend, her mentor, to show her the way she should be treated by her future partner. Don’t leave her the way you left me.

I know someone will show you this and you’ll try to contact me and be hurt by this, but I’ve been hurt for years. Every birthday you missed, every Christmas, every monumental thing in my life YOU missed because you were to busy trying to play the victim. When I was sick in a hospital you never called to make sure I was okay, all you were concerned about was your health insurance. I was not even a factor into your twisted little game. You played this game, where if we did what you said, we’d get respect and love, but if we defied you, it was like it was the end of the world. As if no one raised us properly. You wouldn’t know how I was raised though because you were never there.

I am happy. I am happy you are out of my life, and after you decided I wasn’t enough, I found people who took me in and knew I was enough for them or anyone else. I am blessed everyday by the amount of love I have in my life. I don’t need you. I am just fine without you. The only thing I ask of you is to not do what you did to me to anyone else. No one deserves the pain you caused. No one deserves to have anxiety every time there may be a situation where you are around. Don’t do this to my sweet, funny, loving brother, and don’t do this to the sister I will never get to know because I am not allowed to.

Sometimes I wish I was still your little girl, but not anymore. Good luck with your life. I’m doing just fine without you.

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