What do you wish you could say now, to your deceased parent/s?

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My biological father wasn’t allowed to meet me until I was in my teens so when we did meet, there was a lot of family background to cover as to the why-when and what all. He died about a decade later and I would have liked to tell him privately that I was never angry about not being able to grow up with him. I had thought of a bunch of ways to say it where it wouldn’t hurt his feelings but it didn’t seem possible.

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