"Dear Dad, once, I needed you. When my mom died, I really could have used a dad. I could have used anybody. When she died, there wasn’t even anybody there. No one cared about us. I spent three days in that apartment, eating toast and just waiting for her to wake up. "

• Excerpt from an actual letter from a 24 year old boy to his biological father who tried to reach out to his son after abandoning his family in his youth. This part really got to me.