"You were the greatest thing that ever happened to me. You're an amazing man, you were the only one who ever treated me like I was special, like I mattered. I wish it had been you."

An ex-girlfriend of mine, she never had her father in her life, her older brother was abusive to her, she'd dated 3 or 4 guys before me, each one treated her like a different kind of shit. Her mother wasn't quite a "bad person", but not really a good one either. They weren't terribly well off with money, not dirt poor but not raking it in. I met her when she was 20, we dated for almost 2 years, she was very cute, a little Hispanic girl, easily a 9/10 on anyone's scale. She was normally a real sweet girl, but I think she developed some minor type of bipolar disorder; Sometimes she'd be a sweet, cute little button, other times she'd flip out about anything, I remember one time she got mad at me for having too much armhair and didn't speak to me for two days. But I always treated her like a porcelain doll, I shrugged off any negativity, I tried not to get mad at her, but fuck it wasn't easy. Never yelled at her, never took a swing, but there were many times I stormed out. We broke up when I just couldn't take her anymore, I really wish I had gotten her some help instead of giving up.

I would check up on her from time to time through the years, I'd send her money when she didn't want to admit she needed it. She moved out of her mom's house...Into an "old friend's" place, a minor drug dealer who was always an asshole to her. She got knocked up, her mother demanded she marry him or else be disowned (And her mother mattered a great deal to her, for some reason.).

The line I got was over a tearful phone call, as her jealous babydaddy didn't want any other men in her life. Begged her to let me take care of her, let her come live with me, my family would take her in, I'd raise the kid, anything. Everything. In the end, it didn't matter, it wasn't enough.