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To my dad,

You were supposed to be my safe place, but you became the reason I had to be strong. You hurt Mom, you hurt us, and somehow you never saw what you were doing.

It’s painful growing up watching you be so kind to everyone else, like you knew exactly how to be a good person. People see you as someone gentle, someone worth admiring, but that was never the version we got.

We were your family. We should have mattered the most. But instead, we were the ones who had to carry the hurt you left behind.