>> "I guess I feel like ... fatherhood is my greatest source of achievement. I don't want to lose sight of that. It hurts when people try to make like it never happened." <<
I've read this poem a number of times now, and I still tear up when I get to this stanza, because it hits so hard. I was "only" a step-parent, but the younger child was fifteen months old when he and his family moved in, and had just started kindergarten when his mother and I had the Awful Breakup Fight. I still miss those kids, SO MUCH.
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Date: 2016-10-17 08:59 am (UTC)fatherhood is my greatest source of achievement.
I don't want to lose sight of that. It hurts when
people try to make like it never happened." <<
I've read this poem a number of times now, and I still tear up when I get to this stanza, because it hits so hard. I was "only" a step-parent, but the younger child was fifteen months old when he and his family moved in, and had just started kindergarten when his mother and I had the Awful Breakup Fight. I still miss those kids, SO MUCH.