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Since I was a child, I’d always wondered what it would be like having a father. Everyone else had one. I used to sit for ages at times to think how fun it would be to have someone to go on fishing trips with or just to play with. I felt odd when kids at school talked about what their fathers had bought them and what they did with them on the weekend. It was strange. I did feel pretty left out but it wasn’t as if my mother didn’t try at all. I thought she tried pretty hard to play both roles in the play. But it just wasn’t the same.
It all started when I was about seven. My innocence meant that my mother took for granted I didn’t need a father. When overhearing my mother’s conversations, I would often hear her colleagues tell her that I needed a father or a more masculine figure in my life. They tried and tried to get my mother dating but it didn’t work at all. She went out to dinner with this man who I had never seen and he turned out to be a thief with a really bad......

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