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After years of silence, my dad showed up to walk me down the aisle. I hoped maybe he\u2019d finally changed.<\/p>\n
But when the DJ called for the father-daughter dance, he stayed seated, holding his new wife\u2019s hand. \u201cI can\u2019t. She already feels excluded enough,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n I broke inside. But then my husband stepped in. He took my hand and whispered, \u201cLet me have this dance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n As we swayed, his uncle walked over to my father and said coldly: That day I realized \u2014 I never needed a father who chose someone else. I just needed the man who chose me, always. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After years of silence, my dad showed up to walk me down the aisle. I hoped maybe he\u2019d finally changed. But when the DJ called for the father-daughter dance, he stayed seated, holding his new wife\u2019s hand. \u201cI can\u2019t. She already feels excluded enough,\u201d he said. I broke inside. But then my husband stepped in. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7604,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions\/7604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cIf this is how you treat your daughter, don\u2019t bother coming in Monday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n