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PART 3   I stared at the hospital bracelet in the lunchbox until the letters of my own name blurred.

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sentence had shaped my entire life.

It became the quiet explanation behind every Father’s Day card I never made, every school form where Mom wrote her own name twice, every time I watched other girls run into their fathers’ arms after softball games.

He wasn’t ready.

I had accepted it.

Then I had hated it.

Then I had grown around it like a tree growing continue reading …

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