Posted by Phù Vân (136..98.176) on May 10, 2023 at 11:44:27:
https://www.randomhouse.com/crown/enlightenment/annecushman_enlightenment.pdf
when my mother was six months pregnant with me, my
father walked out the door and never came back. That’s
pretty much all I know about him; all I need to know, my mother
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says. She doesn’t like to talk about him; the few times I got up the
nerve to ask, her face shut down like an iron gate clanging shut. “Not
everybody has a daddy,” she used to tell me when I came home from
preschool and asked where mine was. “Daddies are optional.” “He
was very young,” she’d say when I got older. “We both were. He just
wasn’t ready to grow up yet.”