Ari

And, um,

Sorry, he passed away.

And I knew this was the only part I was gonna be sad about.

But he, I felt like I didn't have to try for his love.

Every phone call, I just knew, I just got it.

But in the midst of all that, I was at my grandmother's house and I didn't know anything.

I had all these different rules and it was a different environment.

and I didn't have my siblings.

So I wanted to go back home, crazy enough.

And my mom is like, well, if you wanna come home, tell CPS for your birthday, you can come home.

Like I'll have that be your birthday gift.

Like she was making it like some big deal to make my birthday, you know, the day I come home and that's her gift to me.

And so as a kid, I always knew that my biological mother was the abuse and my father was just an addict.

Like anything, he was an addict.

That's it.

That's all.

So when speaking to him, because they were still together, when speaking to him, it was always a, I don't want to speak to her.

I don't want to deal with her.

I don't want to talk to her.

No, thank you.