My father was going to be released in a month, and I don’t know how to feel. Should I be happy or sad?
My father was arrested for drugs and armed robbery and was sentenced to twenty years in prison. That was when I was just twelve years old. He had only served ten, which meant he was released on parole.
Before he went to jail, my parents had never had a good relationship. My mother was always cheating with several men, and once my dad caught her, it would lead to a fight. My parents were high school sweethearts, but their love soon faded out, or should I say my mother ran out of love for him.
My father would always do all manner of things to please her, and when his engineering job wasn’t paying the bills well enough, he ventured into armed robbery and drugs. For five years, everything
