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You can do it.”
And then she limped out of the hospital and out of my life. There was no child support, financial or emotional.
Sometimes that silence was louder than any fight could’ve been.
My father raised me entirely on his own. Every fever, every scraped knee, every late-night supermarket run because I suddenly needed poster board for a school project, he was there.
He cooked, cleaned, did my laundry, and kept the lights on, even when the power company threatened to shut us off. And not once, not a single time, did he complain.
What always surprised me most was that he never said a bad word about her.
Not even in passing. Not even when he was tired, stressed, or overwhelmed.
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