I want to apologize to my daughter for not taking her away from her horrible mother who has taught her to hate. I should have done what I could have done to get you safely away when I had the chance, but I foolishly assumed that negotiating with your mother would lead to a fair and equitable custody arrangement for us both, so that you wouldn’t be deprived of one of your parents.\u00a0 I failed to take into account your mother’s outstanding ability to lie and cry on cue. Of course the courts believed her, but three years later, when the truth and witnesses finally came out, and I was finally awarded custody, you were two states away, and no one will help a man recover his daughter.<\/p>\n
I hope you grow up well, and I hope that one day I can see you again and tell you what you mean to me, and how many nights I’ve sat outside alone wondering what you are doing or thinking. I hope you get to meet your sweet baby brother, Jack, and my wife Heather.<\/p>\n
I’m sorry for not doing what people told me to do. I’m sorry for not taking you when I had the chance. I love you, Ashley.<\/p>\n
Submitted by: Dad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I want to apologize to my daughter for not taking her away from her horrible mother who has taught her to hate. I should have done what I could have done to get you safely away when I had the chance, but I foolishly assumed that negotiating with your mother would lead to a fair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}