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Now I'm go1ng to try to describe how
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this heartless person has affected us 1n
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our lives.
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security, love, comfort and support of the
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person who took care of us and raised us
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our whole lives, our dadi
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there for Dustin and I.
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us a stable home, while our mom tried to
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ruin his life almost always leaving Dustin
we have been robbed of thP
He was always He tried to give
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and I in the wreckage.
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people we are today because our dad
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demonstrated so many strengths in the midst
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of the hell he went through with Dana.
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built back up our spirits with his
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encouraging words, never speaking badly of
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our mom to us, just trying to lighten the
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mood with silly gestures and jokes.
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knew what was in our best interests and
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tried to keep the problems between them and
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not us.
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understanding, we wouldn't have turned out
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to be the people that we are.
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important he was to Dustin and I in our
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lives.
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our mother did the unthinkable, that she
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We're the strong
He
He
Without my dad's love and
That's how
It was really hard to accept that
April C . Shepard, RPR, CCR, CSR
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cowardly snuck up on my dad and Karen in
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their most vulnerable state, sleeping, and
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selfishly shot into their defenseless
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bodies to satisfy a sick desire that she
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held deep inside her.
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many people she was hurting, ¡not even me or
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Dustin who she claimed were the most
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important people in the world to he r, that
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she loved more than anything.
she didn't care how
You don't
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kill the most important person in our lives
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if you love us.
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for another person.
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I
She's not capable of love She ' s only capable of
love for herself.
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what's been the hardest part of this
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for me, besides that, is when my dad was
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shot and killed
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with a very difficult part of my life as an
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unhappy teenager.
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world.
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blamed the one person who made the rules
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for me, my dad.
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hated everything and everyone that held me
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back from what
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that was a normal teenage phase.
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okay as long as you get through it.
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so
I
was already struggling
I
I
felt so alone in the
had to blame someone and
I
I
I
got to the point where
wanted to do.
Now
I
I
know
That's But
April C. Shepard, RPR, CCR, CSR
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