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So when his 18th birthday approached and I asked him what he wanted—cake, dinner, friends—I expected him to shrug or joke that he needed the day off.
My father threw me out of the house when he found out I was pregnant – 18 years later my son visited him
Instead, he looked at me and said, “I want to visit my grandfather.”
Mother and son talking | Source: Pexels
I never hid from him who his grandfather was. I didn’t believe in bearing my father’s shame, because if anyone should be ashamed, it was he who abandoned his own daughter when she needed him most.
But I never imagined that Liam would want to meet him.
My father had every opportunity to lend a helping hand, to ease our suffering, even from a distance. A phone call. A check. A kind word. But he never did.
Not once.
