It felt like I’d opened Pandora’s box and was petrified my life would never be quite the same again.
I don’t know a huge amount about my father, but I know enough to say that he wasn’t partner or dad of the year.
He treated my mother shabbily and broke her trust. She left him a couple of years after I was born – deciding theirTwo years later, in the late 1980s, my mother, grandparents and I sat down to lunch one weekend when the bell rang. We weren’t expecting anyone, but my grandad duly answered the door. There, on the step, was my father.
I remember hearing a muffled conversation while hiding underneath the dining room table, not wanting to see him – or him to see me. I did this on instinct; I was too young to understand what was going on but I was frightened. Sitting between the chunky wooden legs, I was also confused. In the end, my father never entered the house. My grandad told him to make himself scarce – and he did.
I was four years old. That was the last time we were ever in the same place. To be honest, I never thought we’d see each other again – but then I didn’t realise one day I’d need his help.Platform is the home of Metro.co.uk's first-person and opinion pieces, devoted to giving a platform to underheard and underrepresented voices in the media.An anonymous writer describes the moment he found outAdee Phelan made millions in his job as hairdresser and salon owner, all without being able to read.
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