She hurt me to the bone. I told her I love her like a daughter. She said “funny, you’ve never been a father figure.”
I’ve never been an “upfront godfather”. I’ve always worked “behind the scenes”.
Her mom wanted to make her wait until 18 before she could date… I thought that was ridiculous… I wanted it much much lower, but I got her to compromise at 16.
Her stepdad was a dick. I was responsible for getting him out of the picture.
I gave her my Saxophone, which belonged to my sister, then me, then her. And I went to allot of her band performances.
One of her graduation ceremonies… even though I could barely walk because of my disability, I walked arm and arm with her down the football field. And later I spent hours touching up those pictures using photoshop so the world could see her as beautiful as I saw her.
I drove for hours with her mom down to Florida because her mom didn’t feel safe picking her and Chris up with their dad around. I made sure they were all safe and drove them for hours back home.
I could go on and on.
End of the story … she broke my heart when she said that to me. And it still hurts.
I’ve tried to let go of the fact that she cut me off even though I was and here for her for 25 years but my heart still breaks.
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