An Unlikely Bond

*I wrote this piece 4 years ago and have tried, relentlessly, to get it published. But since Dad's passing, I have tried, relentlessly, to forget it exists -- tried to forget I ever thought these awful things, said these horrible words. Writing parts of this piece, and reading it again now, hurts me unbearably. But this is all part of me; my selfishness, and our at times rocky relationship, is part of my truth. And therefore, to paint a fuller portrait of myself, and for my own healing and self