so i'm counting on this concert all fuckin year, right? i worked my ass off for a hundred dollars, bought my own tickets, my own clothes, accessories, everything i want for this concert. day before, i tell my dad I’m going. he acts... normal. towards me, at least. towards my mom, though, he starts getting violent. he starts manipulating. he starts threatening. hours before the concert I’ve been looking forward to all year, he threatens to abandon me and my mom, stop paying for child support, stop paying for the lawsuit that determines whether or not we go homeless, just leave my unemployed, disabled mother and his own goddamn child. so, we cave in, i don't go, and here i am, at his mercy once again, absolutely helpless and miserable. thanks dad.