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Submitted to Contest #43
My father and I are talking more these days. We didn't used to. But at least now we're both willing to have a relationship. Willing to heal the past. Willing to move on. Our tentative beginning would not exist if I hadn't changed. I had to forgive my father before I could open my heart again. At first, even calling him "dad" was strange, and it is still hard to say "I love you."Nearly all my life I've struggled to forgive my father. He left when I was in the first grade, leaving my mother alone to raise my two older brothers and me. It was m...
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