#singlefather

My daughter and I live with my mom. She hurried to the school bus stop this morning but she had time to write a message on my window.

I love being a dad. This is a golden time in my life.

The Holley Family

Origin ID: NexusG77

Background Story: Once upon a time, Robert Holley met the most beautiful woman he had ever seen standing on the beach, staring at the ocean. They fell in love, got married, and had 3 beautiful children. But it was on her third pregnancy that Robert’s wife fell ill and had complications. After struggling to deliver their youngest, she pulled him in closely to whisper to him a secret. 

“My darling, I have kept something from you for so long. I t-thought... I thought that if we never took them to the water at their births, they would be like you but this one is different. I could feel it. Our new baby carries my trait. She is of the merpeople...Like I was.”

 “My love I don’t understand, you’re delirious. Let me get the docto-” She grabs his wrists and forces him back into his seat.

“No! You mustn’t leave my side before my strength fails me..” Robert was unsure whether he should believe his wife’s ramblings but he could see the light from her eyes growing more faint by the second. He grasped her hand tightly.

She continued, her voice quaking with emotion and exhaustion, “I never told you because I w-was afraid and ashamed...I abandoned m-my people to be a part of this world, the human world...Merfolk resent humans, and my desires to join them had me banished. You must protect our c-child! If anyone f-found out... I...” Robert felt her hand go limp, her eyes fluttering once more to release a single tear...Her final breath floated in the air leaving Robert with so many questions. And so much pain. But he heard his wife. The child she had given up her life for would need more attention than he was prepared for. He would make it his life’s mission to protect her, and to find out the secrets that his wife had taken with her.

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Seleng (tsr) Moles N4

"As refugee for the past 26 years, one thing I will not forget is my life as a single father, raising 5 children in the Diaspora.  I frequently ponder on my long journey to America.  When the civil war started, I fled to the Netherlands via Kenya and in 1995, I immigrated to the USA through the lottery Visa Program.  A tragedy touched my family; my wife became incapacitated with illness and disappeared. My mother-in-law who helped us raise the children died after fighting a long battle with kidney cancer. The otherwise shared role of parenting children between the ages of two and twelve years old suddenly shifted to my sole responsibility. In the early days, when the kids were young, it was challenging to cook, clean and take them to school and be at the same time the sole breadwinner -- at one point, I thought that I couldn't do it and wanted to ask my sisters to help with the children. The first three months were so excruciating; I suffered anxiety, exhaustion and sleepless nights and could not accomplish the necessary house chores such as cooking and cleaning.  Every day in the morning, I would walk the children to different schools, and around mid-day, I would have to bring them back for one hour lunch and take them back to school and in the afternoon have to walk them back home for the day. However, I realised that I have no other option but to carry on and now, I see the fruits of my hard labour. The oldest one, my 12-year-old daughter played the role of the mother whilst I was away at work. Some days she would stay at home to look after if one of the younger ones was ill and could not go to school. Other times, we would all go together everywhere. I was known as the man with the girls in the town's shopping stores. I remember one time when this American lady saw me walking inside one of the stores and asked me where my girls were. I told her that my daughters are now all grown up, and they don't want me to walk anymore with them in the streets. They completed their education and became fully functioning members of the society. As for me, I found love again and married in 2013."

(Ashburn, United States)

"Mudadaa dheer ee aan qurbaha joogay, waxaanan iloobi karin waayo aragnimadii aan ka helay 16-kii sano oo ugu danbeysay ee aan ahaa aabbe keliya oo koriya 5 caruur. Si joogta ahba uga fakara socdaalkii dheeraa aan ku imid Maraykanka.  Markii dagaalada sookeeye ka bilowdeen Soomaaliya waxaan usoo qaxay dalka Kiinya muddo kadib waxaan usoo guuray dalka Nederlaan, halkaas kuma sii nagaane hadana markale waxaan usoo hayaamay dalka Maraykanka 1995-kii, kadib markii aan helay barnaamijka looyaqaano lootiriga. Aniga iyo qoyskayga waxaa nala soo deristay xaalad adag. Kadib markii  caruurtay hooyadood xanuunsatay, wayna ka tagtay, aniga ayey noqotay inaan masuuliyadii korintooda aan qaado. Korinta caruurta waxaa iga caawinjirtay sodohday oo muddo kadib u geeriyootay xanuunka kansarka oo kaga dhacay kalyaha. Kadib waxaan keligay qaaday doorkii waalidnimo caruur da’adoodu u dhaxaysay laba jir  ka ugu wayna ahaa 12-jir. Wakhtiyadii hore waxay ahayd mid aad igu adag in aan isku qabto hawsha, cunto karinta, nadiifinta guriga, in aan iskoolka geeyo hadana kasoo qaado, waxaa intaas ii dheera in aan masaariiftooda raadiyo, shaqeeyo. Waxaan gaaray in aan ka fakaro in aanan daryeeli karin caruurta oo inaan ka codsado hablaha walaaladay in ay caruurta iga caawiyaan. Muddo 3 bilood ugu horeyey waxay ahaayeen kuwo aad u adag. Waxaa igu dhacay daal iyo hurdo la’aan badan taas oo igu keentay in aan hawshii muhiimka ahayd wada qaban kari waayo sida, cunto karin iyo nadiifintii guriga. Subax kasta waa in aan carurta geeyo iskuulo kala duwan, marka ay gaaro duhurka waa in aan qado usoo kaxeeyo hadana sacad kadib waa in aan iskuulka ku celiyo, gelinka danbe waa in aan kasoo kaxeeyo iskulada guriga keeno. Laakiin si kastaba ha noqote waxay ii ahayd in anan haysan wax kale  waa in aan caruurta daryeelo, laakiin maanta waan arkaa miraha dedaalki  dheera aan soo maray. Caruurtayda midkii ugu wayna waxay qaadatay doorkii hooyanimo, marka aan shaqada ku maqanahay hadii mid ka mid ah xanuunsado caruurta ka yaryar iyada guriga joogta si ay u caawiso. Wakhtiyada kale, dhamaantayo waanu wada joogna  ama meel baanu wada aadna, dadku waxay ii yaqanaan ninkii hablaha. Waxaan xasuusta maalin anigoo jooga dukaan waxaa I aragtay gabar Maraykan ah, kadib igu tiri meeye hablihii waxaan ugu jawaabay  hada waa koreen hablo waawayn noqdeen marka ma rabaan in ay isoo racaan dariiqyada ila socdaan. Hada waxbarashadii waa dhamaysteen, waxayna noqdeen hablo ka mid ah bulshada. Aniguna, 2013 markale guursaday gabar aan jecelahay."