COMING SOON!
Still Her Daddy:
A Memoir of Someone I Never Met
An excerpt from the Introduction:
I'm a terrible father. I ignored my daughter for years.
Elizabeth is a total cipher to me: a person I miss deeply and painfully, but about whom I know so little. I missed her growing up. I never heard her laugh, or saw her run. We never sang or danced or played as much as a game of peek-a-boo together. I have no idea what her favorite color might be, or her favorite food, or even the color of her eyes. She is like the teddy bear I'd snuggled to a rag in my youth. She is beloved, but lost to me.
She was taken away from me before she was born. The courts sided with her mother; there was no appeal. All I have left of her is her absence.
I'm a male victim of abortion.
I have spent most of my adult life in denial of that simple fact, in suppressed grief and rage, and in a futile mission to fill a hole in my heart the size and shape of what would be, as of this writing, a forty-eight year old woman.
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And while it may be my story, I'm not the hero, and really, I'm not the victim. Like Elizabeth, I'm a beloved child who got separated from a loving Father.
But He could do something about it.
