When the children found out about his death.
They were sad, but confused because again he comes and goes, like sudden breaths.
Every year until each of them turn 18 years old, they get a birthday card in the mail from his girlfriend.
She made that wish come true that his memory lives on, again and again.
Years have passed and the oldest daughter was damaged from what he did to her when she was young.
She was scared to have a boyfriend,
But one day when she turned 17, a guy had liked her, and showed her that not all guys are bad.
Her therapy was through dating him, and she was not sad.
Everyone was damaged in some way.
Her youngest brother never knew what a father was, he never experienced playing at the park or baseball games with his dad.
He was missing the father figure which he needed, and that is sad.
Everyone needed a dad,
But they all grew up and had families of their own.
The oldest son, never had a child
He lives all alone.
Today, everyone is much older, and their mom is still alive.
Through all the bad their was good, and their mom never married again, she never again became a wife.
Looking back at that big white house, their memories burned with it.
45 years later, the little girl in the story that gets molested from her dad,
That was so very sad,
Was me...
I am that girl that was weakened by the man she called her dad.
I am that little girl that used to take the secret walks
and those deadly talks.
I am that girl who walked alone,
I am that girl, who said " No."
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