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You’ve got a ticket in your hand – Where will you go? What will you do? What will happen when you get there? My parents separated during my younger years. From that time, it is now eight years; I have not seen or heard of my father. I cannot recall his looks, speech or place of work. I could visualize him coming home and carrying me, but it was a dream that never came to pass. I have lived with my mother who could work relentlessly as she was the only wage earner and we had no time to spend together. As a teenager, I could see my friends with their dads going to camp together. Mother tried to fill the space left by dad through registering me in sports of my choice, but I still missed my dad. I finished my high school and hoped he would attend my graduation, but he missed. Therefore, with a ticket in my hands, I would look for my dad wherever he stays or works. When I get to my dad, I am not certain how he will react to my presence, but there may be two possibilities; one, given that he has not visited us for eight years, he may reject and refuse to see or talk to me. Secondly, due to the father-child bond, he may feel the emotion of reunion and embrace, hug or endeavor to do all that he has not done in the past eight years in a single day. However, it is my prayer for the second possibility to happen. If he embraces me and gives me the audience, I would persuade him to come home and reconcile with my mother. I believe that time heals and it has been eight years; therefore, whatever their differences, I know it has been eroded with the passing time. Further, I would make him see the sense of how life has been to us especially to me by living without him for eight
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