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Daddy's Girl |
| You could always walk away. Home and family, friends, had no more meaning for you than library books discarded on a park bench. I went looking for you once, concerned about my daddy alone with someone else's belongings. Nothing of your own, except a few clothes packed in an old suitcase. I brought you photographs. I did not understand. Sometimes, I imagine strangers wondering how they came to be |
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| left in the dust of a rented room. |
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