Dear Cali Chica:

His note, “Love Daddy”- two deceiving words, for me, as I read these: love is one, daddy is he other. Daddy suggests to me a loving father, attentive and protective of his daughter.

He did not protect his girls day after day, month after month, decades. He did not protect his girls when distress was so very visible on their young, truly innocent faces.

If your father is your mother’s puppet, better not rejoin that puppet theater as a puppet yourself, her puppet. That would be quite sickening, wouldn’t it, as if telling your father: I am so sorry you are her puppet, it sucks very much, I know. Let me rejoin you, be her puppet alongside you… does that make you feel better…

anita