Everyone has those strange little facts about themselves...
- Some people have never broken a single bone in their body
- Some people are ambidextrous
- Some people have been to all seven continents
- Some people are incredibly fast readers
- Some people have been skydiving or bungee jumping
- Some people are related to someone famous
- Some people have unconventional talents you never would have thought of
- Some people are impossibly good at drawing/painting/sketching
- Some people have six toes
Me? I apparently have an illegitimate daughter I know nothing about who I've abandoned...twice.
It all happened about two years ago at 3:00am.
I was fast asleep and the sound of my phone ringing woke me up.
Since I had to lift myself out of a heavy slumber, my voice was hoarse and I was disorientated so all I did was instinctively pick up my phone and grunt into it.
"Urgh?"
"Hi...Dad?" a nervous female voice asked.
I can't really tell but she sounded like she was in her late teens.
Because I was in a confused state, having just woke up, I simply grunted again.
"Urgh..."
"Can you pick me up now?" she asked anxiously.
"Urgh!"
"Thanks Dad, see you soon!"
She then hung up, I threw my phone down and went straight back to sleepy land.
I woke up six hours later with this exact thought in my head...
Wow, what a good sleep! I really feel refreshed and...oh Christ, I hope that girl is alright!
After checking my phone's call records to make sure that I DID actually have a conversation with someone shortly after 3:00am, I realized that there were two explanations for what had taken place mere hours earlier...
(a) A random girl I have no connection to dialled my number instead of her father's by accident and my voice was too low and hoarse for her to distinguish that I was NOT her dad.
(b) I somehow fathered a daughter the same age as me who I deserted both in her childhood and AGAIN when she fretfully asked me to pick her up from somewhere.
I know (a) is a hell of a lot more likely but with MY life, (b) wouldn't be a surprise...
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