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I could feel my desperation bubbling to the surface again, hoping to be ushered back into his life and our family, now that he was terminally ill. He'd always hold onto his religious faith no matter what, I knew that, but now I wondered if he'd start putting faith in our relationship as well, with only months to live.

The next few years took endurance, a lot of it, as I attempted to cut the chains of my past. I was showing up a decade late to the party, trying to figure out things in my 30's, that normally were worked out in one's 20's