Shocked, I confronted my father. That’s when he told me the truth: I wasn’t adopted. My mother had an affair during their marriage, and I was the result. Dad agreed to raise me, but never fully healed—and invented the adoption story to cope.
The revelation shook everything I thought I knew about myself. But for the first time, I understood the source of my lifelong confusion. I told my father I needed space. I wasn’t walking away—I was finally walking toward my own truth.
My first birthday as a married woman was supposed to be simple—intimate, joyful, mine. A few close friends. Some food. Maybe a cake with too many candles….
“Hey!” he barked, tossing a shirt that landed like a slap on my vanity. “Iron this for me, will ya? And I’m starving. Whip me up something…
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