The thoughts going through my head were not pleasant as I sent my dad a well-deserved, long overdue message, “When are you going to start acting like a dad?” Who forgets their only daughter’s seventeenth birthday? Expecting a thought out opinionated text, the only reply I received was my phone showing the message I sent was read at 8:37 pm; no reply. Throughout my entire life I was raised by my step-dad and my mother with random child-support checks every...

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