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“Without my dad around, I felt so alone and wondered when I would start to feel loved again. I had hoped and prayed so hard for a miracle to bring him back to me, to fix my life, to make things go back to how they used to be. And when that didn’t happen, it broke my heart, and I learned that miracles didn’t exist. I had felt alone ever since.”

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