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Dear Daddy

Dear Daddy,

Where were you

All my life

Since I was young

When I turned 10?

My first year of

Double digits

How about my first year

Of High School

My Sweet 16?

Where were you then

Now...all of the sudden

I am a Senior

17 years old

And you want to be a part in it?

You can't even remember my birthday

You can't spell my sister's name right...

What type of father is that?

Not a very good one...

Why is it that...

You now what to be a part of me

Because I'm an adult?

Do you want control now...

Because I can take care of myself

And you don't have to???

Why didn't you care before

You say you've changed

But your still the same

What happened to the 2 birthday cards you promised?

I still haven't gotten them.

I just want to let you know...

This may be hard to hear but you need to hear it...

I don't know...

If you should come to my graduation

My marriage..when I find a man who wants to marry me.

I don't think I should invite a man

Who wasn't a father to me

Thinking he has changed.

I don't think that you have changed....

If you have...

You've never proven it?

I am still waiting for proof...

I have'nt even gotten a birthday card...

Everytime you call...

You have to ask how old I am...

And what grade I'm in...

Sorry but that's not a father...

That's not someone who I want to call...

Daddy...

I'm Sorry.

                                                      Your Daughter,

                                                                          Brittany

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