RETURN TEXTS;
-- Yeah. No matter how much damage he did, he ultimately failed. I just feel a lot of loss when I realize how much further ahead we could have been if a) I hadn't made the decision to run in the first place and b) if my father had just been honest. It's...very soap opera and pointless to think of it that way, I know. -- We are doing well, though. Better than I had originally let myself hope. I never stopped loving him, and I'm still just endlessly grateful for the opportunity to try again. -- My nieces and nephew are a great source of pride for me, so I'm pretty tickled for my brothers. They both deserve all the happiness they can muster.