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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 3 - Advanced)
Topic: Dead End (02/06/14)
If I Could Talk

If I could talk, this is the true story that I would say. My daddy went to court today. He is fighting for me. My mommy left daddy when she got pregnant. He never knew about me until six weeks before I was born. He registered right away with the father’s registry to say he was my daddy.

Mommy didn’t want me. She gave me up for adoption. Two attorneys, a man and his wife, wanted to adopt me. The lady wanting to adopt me is a deputy processing attorney for our county.

In court, the woman who approved the adoption in the first place testified that daddy is a bad father. Daddy was in court from 9:00 until 5:00 today. He was on the witness stand for two and half hours.

My seven year old half-brother Caleb could tell you about daddy. Caleb knows daddy loves him very much and has been a very good daddy to him. They play ball together, go fishing, and hiking near Tanyard Creek in Bella Vista.

In court, they said that daddy does not make enough money to take care of me. Daddy has worked for the Police Department doing police records for 6 ½ years so he is a good worker and works hard to provide for his family.

Caleb would love to have a baby sister. He was hoping daddy would bring me home today. Daddy and Caleb made a nice room for me. It has a crib, Graco playpen, a rocking chair, and all the necessities for a newborn baby girl.

Under Arkansas law, an unmarried mother has custody of that child. When mommy gave me up for adoption, she must have thought daddy would not even know I existed. Daddy found out about me. He wanted me from the time he first knew about me.

Daddy’s relatives my grandma, grandpa, aunts, uncles, and cousins have been praying that daddy gets his baby girl. Great-grandmother lives near daddy. She loves daddy very much. She has been praying that daddy gets his baby girl. She prays that she can know her great-grand daughter.

Daddy is a good cook; he used to be a chef at a hotel in Bentonville. I know he would feed me and give me good care.

Daddy is sad tonight. His heart is nearly broken. How can the adopting two attorneys take his flesh and blood from him? He is my daddy. How can the judge award them custody of me when my own daddy wants me so much?

Daddy’s court case today cost him thousands in attorney’s fees. Even with that expense, he still lost me to the two attorneys who want to adopt me. They have more money than my daddy. They know that daddy does not have much money to fight for me. Dollars bought me in the court room today.

I think my mother and the adopting attorneys thought daddy would never know that he had a baby girl. This is worse than a puppy mill. I am my daddy’s baby girl. I am a child of God. I am human being that today was given not to my biological father, my daddy, but to complete strangers.

My daddy wants to change Arkansas law so that a daddy has more rights to his child. Will you help daddy change the law for father’s rights? My daddy loves his children. I think other daddies love their sons and daughters like my daddy does.

Will I grow up not knowing how much my daddy cared about me? Will I never know how hard he tried to stand against the two adopting attorneys and a judge who all work together in the same county on other cases? Was my daddy set up?

Will a wall forever separate me from my daddy? No daddy should have to go through what my daddy is going through because he loves me and wants to be my daddy. He wants to help me grow up in his faith. I know he had faith before the hearing that righteousness would prevail and I would be in his arms tonight.

I was born the last day of 2013 and my daddy has never seen me. Daddy heard me crying today. He could not even come to see me.

Tomorrow the adoption papers are to be signed. Is this the end of my story with my daddy? Does this have to be a dead end for daddy and me?


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Brenda Rice
02/18/14
Truly heartbreaking story and unfortunately it happens more than we think.

Interesting viewpoint.

Thanks for sharing.
Sunny Loomis 
02/19/14
Sad story. Well told. Thank you.