Well, I got there, she came over to my car and told me she didn\u2019t feel comfortable.
Her bio dad was distracted, on his phone most of the time. No real conversation. No connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said, \u201cI just wanted to be with someone who actually sees me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n We didn\u2019t say much on the ride home. But when we pulled into the driveway, she looked at me and asked: I turned to her and said, She may not be my daughter by blood, And that\u2019s the kind of fatherhood I\u2019ll always choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I got there, she came over to my car and told me she didn\u2019t feel comfortable.Her bio dad was distracted, on his phone most of the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cCan I still call you Daddy?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve never had to ask.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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but she is my daughter by love, by time, by every bedtime story, school run, and scraped knee.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n