Don’t Dwell on What Might Have Been, Love What Actually Is

My Absent Father Gave Me a Great Life By Staying Away

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I never met my father. If I did, it would’ve been when I was an infant, oblivious to any and everything around me.

I spoke to him once in my life, a conversation that lasted less than 30 seconds 24 years ago. I was raised by my mother and grandmother…