I Became a Dad

A daughter had appeared in my life.

“Dad!”

It wasn’t some cheap joke.

I had literally become the father of a daughter.

“Dad! Hold me!”

Dad (Abba).

A word meaning someone’s father.

Something I didn’t have.

Despite not even having a father of my own, I had somehow become someone else’s dad.

I stood there frozen and blank, then soon looked down at the short little body clinging to me...