Dear Diary (Daddy)

After 20 years, I finally found my father.



It started out as a lonely drunk night as my DF wasn't home. In fact, he was off to Florida to visit with his dad and mom for his mother's birthday. I was lonely and not just a little scared so I called the state child support enforcement to see if I could locate my father. They found him for me, but wouldn't give me any information. But they did agree to send a letter to him stating that I wanted to get in contact with him.

20 years had past so I could only imagine the thoughts he was thinking as he opened up this letter and saw my name. I'd been through a different kind of hell, not ever having a father or anyone to call Daddy. All my life Mother had swept me from one man to another and leaving him just when I felt comfortable enough to dare call him dad. I prayed and hoped for a phone call.

It finally came. We talked for 10 hours straight, hoping we could cram 20 years into a phone call. It was a wonderful conversation and he appeared nothing like the terrible man that Mother portrayed him as. And best of all, he wanted to claim me! No one has ever wanted to claim me.

So here I am, no longer fatherless and working as hard as I can, with emotions running high, to build a relationship with a man who's love I should have had all my life. He does love me. And he's reassured me that he never stopped loving me, even after all these absent years.

I can finally be what I always wanted to be...A daddy's girl