Larry Birkhead

What do you want to do?

No, I want to go because I have friends from this background and that background.

And she got to experience everything.

And it wasn't about status or because your mom was this or that or whatever.

So I feel like...

As scattered as I am and ADD and whatever, I've done a lot of different things like in jobs and careers.

And, you know, I don't know that I was ever great at one thing because my attention gets shifted.

But I think I've been good at being a dad.

And I think that I put a lot of effort into that.

I've been at every pickup and drop off at school, every Girl Scout meeting, every field trip.

I'm the dad with the cupcakes coming in and ripping the sticker off saying I bought them.

I mean, I made them, but I didn't buy them.

And I'm like throwing the receipt in my pocket.

I think that, you know, um, and I appreciate that.

Um, I, I, I, um,

I never thought I was going to do this alone and it didn't hit me until I took her to kindergarten and I filled out the forms to enroll her and I put my information down and it said the mothers and I had to write the word deceased across the page and I had to go from shifting mentally from...

you know, birthday parties, you know, without her mom to picking out tombstones to, you know, trying to see if I could get the right amount of pink that Anna would like for her to wear and putting all the outfits that Anna saved on her for all these years.

And, you know, when she was going through her career and modeling and grabbing stuff from different countries and

making sure she wore every one of them and, um, trying to figure out like, you know, be the bumbling dad and work my way through things like girl issues that a mom would talk to the girl about and, and things where I kind of felt, um, inadequate, you know, and, but I tried my best on, um, how can you do, how can you do this?

Pay, you know, tribute and give her a life that, um,