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a part of him expected for her to not want anything to do with him, let alone get any further insight with a father that in short, ABANDONED HER. whatever talents he shared with his daughter was well and good, but there didn’t need to be a bond, a relationship -- to be seen as FAMILY ? that’d be different for him, after being so without for years. then again, there was patty, and a small family being built just twenty miles south of here. there’s a small stack, too small -- on the kitchen island between them. a pot of coffee is set brewing, and a nice afternoon air takes through the windows. “ i don’t think i ever told you, but this really is a beautiful home. ” he remembers how very nearly it too fell prey to become a place of horror some months back.
