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A Widower's Diary
Date: 10/14/2014, Categories: First Time, Taboo, Author: brianbigdogsmith, Rating: 80, Source: xHamster
It wasn't anything I had planned, or even thought of. On the other hand, I can't blame anyone but myself, if there's blame to be charged. Being a single Dad is hard enough, I guess, but when your k** is a sensitive 16-yr-old daughter who has just lost the Mom to whom she was especially close, it gets harder. Take it from me. When Kaitlyn died from an enlarged heart that nobody knew about, doing one of the things she loved, keeping in shape at the gym in a very heart-rate-increasing dance class, Bronwyn was devastated. As I was. The two of them did all the mother-daughter things together; each one was the other's BFF, at least as far as female BFF's went. I tried to fill in as many of the missing parts as I could. I changed my work schedule so that I was always there for Bron from late afternoons every day and all weekend. I took her everywhere she needed to go, and continued going to every one of her girls' volleyball games, at which she excelled. Things were going about as well as they could, everything considered, until the year's big thunderstorm hit. Bron had always been afraid of thunder and lightning, since she was very small, and nothing Kait and I did cured her of that fear. It was Saturday night, and she hadn't wanted to go anywhere: "I just want to stay home and read tonight, Dad." She did that a lot since her Mom died. We went to bed after watching the late news. I woke from a sound sl**p when Bron crawled into bed beside me. "Dad, this storm is freaking me out! Do ...