I'm really glad your father was so good to you. Mine was too. He was everything for me and my sister.

[He chews on his bottom lip, trying to decide if he should say this next part but... he doesn't want her to have the wrong idea.]

My mom didn't die or anything. Um. It was... I don't want to say worse but... she cheated on my dad, and then she left us all to go be with the guy she was having an affair with. My sister was barely older than an infant and she just... ran away. My dad had to raise us all on his own. He's basically a superhero.