I reconnected with the parent who left and it cracked open a grief I had buried for years
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Honestly thank you for writing this out loud. So many of us feel it and never say it. You just made a bunch of strangers feel less alone tonight.
You showed up here and said the hard thing. That is not nothing. That is the opposite of giving up. Quietly proud of you.
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