I made the difficult decision to cut contact with my dying dad
19-04-2025 15:00 via metro.co.uk

I made the difficult decision to cut contact with my dying dad

For the first 15 years of my life, we appeared to be the perfect family unit (Picture: Emma Green)Blearily waking up from a nap in January this year, I saw I had over 30 missed calls from my younger sister, Charli.I immediately called her back. That’s when she dropped the bomb: She had just seen on Facebook that our father had passed away in the early hours of that morning.I initially felt numb, which then gave way to sadness and anger. I spent the next two days pacing the house, howling
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