"Men break your heart and Daddy, you broke mine.." And Other Extraordinary Truths
A very different Father's Day card:
“Daddy, I have to ask you….I want to know if…if you can forgive me? Please? Right here, right now. I can’t go on without knowing we’re OK. Do what I never could or you–please liberate me from this heartache! Delivery me from all the pain I’ve been festering in my soul. It’s a pain that’s kept me from living..really living...”
“Being here today makes me realize that I’ve never come to terms with how much I miss you, but I do! I miss you. And it wasn’t that I couldn’t forgive you–I did–years ago. I just couldn’t forgive myself for thinking that I hated you as much as I did, but even that wasn’t the real problem. I never hated you, Daddy. I just didn’t understand. And no one bothered to explain. Mother made the fatal mistake of talking so badly about you. She trashed you in front of Michael and me. The was a hell of a thing. She negated our existence by damning you and in our minds, that made you the enemy. To hear Mom wax about what happened, it was as if you stole her money, her youth and her dignity...”
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