Father Figure
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- Joined
- Sep 21, 2015
There were times in life where everything tilted on it's edge and changed. A moment that altered the course of events for a human being and there would never be any turning back. When he had woken up that day he had never suspected that would be the case for him. When he had been getting his coffee, scrolling through his Facebook feed, and casually paying his bills...he did not suspect that things were about to change completely.
Then he received the phone call.
As he listened to his beautiful daughter he could not help but feel a bit of remorse about her lot in life. He was not a cruel man, even though they were estranged. He was not some monster, even though he'd had thoughts about her when they met later in life than he had wanted. He truly tried to care about her. Yet it was all mingled, all mangled, all twisted up. He had not come into his daughter's life until she was in her twenties, and even then they had been distant. He had tried to reach out to her on occasion, but what could he have expected, he was rebuffed.
That was not unreasonable. He understood intuitively that she had felt abandoned, even though he had not been at fault for her Mother's choices. He had understood that she resented the life he had, one which had left him affluent and with quite a bit of wealth, where she herself had struggled to make ends meet until she had struck it big on the internet. He had accepted all of that and just tried to move on. Now though she was reaching out to him, now with her very future on the line...she was struggling and so he answered the phone. Answered the phone and then as he listened to her sobbing tears told her everything was going to be all right.
Everything would work out. He was there for her.
A small bit of time later would find him getting out of his Cadillac and approaching the small downtown home she had, his large frame moving with the ease of a professional man. He was dressed for work, even though he worked from home, and had a long sleeve grey turtleneck on, black slacks, and black dress shoes. His eyes shifted as he took in the neighborhood, not giving a judgment on it even though he did not necessarily fit in, and he raised his hand to know on the door....waiting patiently.
Then he received the phone call.
As he listened to his beautiful daughter he could not help but feel a bit of remorse about her lot in life. He was not a cruel man, even though they were estranged. He was not some monster, even though he'd had thoughts about her when they met later in life than he had wanted. He truly tried to care about her. Yet it was all mingled, all mangled, all twisted up. He had not come into his daughter's life until she was in her twenties, and even then they had been distant. He had tried to reach out to her on occasion, but what could he have expected, he was rebuffed.
That was not unreasonable. He understood intuitively that she had felt abandoned, even though he had not been at fault for her Mother's choices. He had understood that she resented the life he had, one which had left him affluent and with quite a bit of wealth, where she herself had struggled to make ends meet until she had struck it big on the internet. He had accepted all of that and just tried to move on. Now though she was reaching out to him, now with her very future on the line...she was struggling and so he answered the phone. Answered the phone and then as he listened to her sobbing tears told her everything was going to be all right.
Everything would work out. He was there for her.
A small bit of time later would find him getting out of his Cadillac and approaching the small downtown home she had, his large frame moving with the ease of a professional man. He was dressed for work, even though he worked from home, and had a long sleeve grey turtleneck on, black slacks, and black dress shoes. His eyes shifted as he took in the neighborhood, not giving a judgment on it even though he did not necessarily fit in, and he raised his hand to know on the door....waiting patiently.