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

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The honesty hurt.

But I needed it.

For years, my father had been an empty space I filled with imagination. Maybe he was cruel. Maybe he was rich. Maybe he had another family. Maybe he never thought of me at all.

Now he was real.

And real was messier.

He had loved me.

He had failed me.

Both could be true.

We spent three hours in the storage unit.

I found birthday continue reading …