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Daddy's Girl

You don't get to choose who loves you ... or when

Emily Sanders Hopkins
Jun 13, 2023
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Despite the fact that she had met him only once in life, when she was very young, and had to be told by an elderly aunt, “That is your father. He’s not a nice man,” Maeve did attend his funeral. It was only right, she felt, to attend your own father’s funeral, even if he’d served ten years in prison for killing someone in a bar fight.

Bar fight. For Maev…

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