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Dear Daughter

Avast emotional gulf manifested; courtesy series of unfortunate events; sundered biologically accorded, cherished, enshrined paternal bond; resultant dereliction defies, justifies, ratifies...dissonance; unbearable hindsight excoriates impropriety reviewing dirty deeds done dirt cheap; impossible mission to excise indelibly etched psychological impacted repercussions upon mine fountainhead; weighing excruciating deserved self loathing; permanently deplorable depravity yoked; unyielding choke hold, no longer asking forgiveness, but airing errant culpability; dada's guilt indefensible impropriety; begetting permanent fallout; exacting just desserts; bitter regret beast of burden (oxe see moron) housed within self made villain; unjust to impinge your providential opportunities, whose blessed smarts plus unfettered, unencumbered, undaunted... daring do promise productive existence par excellence, versus anxiety riddled torturous legacy writ large across countenance this papa; analogously das scribe bing mortal epitaph, while dark shadows haunt this edgy rusty knight, who once pawn time shrugged off mischievous lascivious actions as payback; recognizably erred; misperceptions (mine); deduced ex post facto, when the missus doled out unpleasantries; exploding anger; vented regarding significant roiling perturbations harkening to her own unrepentant poisonous stinging toxicity; delivered courtesy birth parents; hands lack king awareness to rock cradle with tender loving care, hence burdened with childhood tsoris prior to accepting yours truly as life contra dance partner these preceding xxii+ years avoiding unseemly behavior; aware that the mother of our two darling daughters doth love and forgive me, though recouping similar results with first offspring may remain tense, and many years past not a happy camper.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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