3. What’s a family secret you didn’t get told until you were older that made th...

What’s a family secret you didn’t get told until you were older that made things finally make sense?

My dad went to jail when I was around 10 years old. Whenever I asked why he went to jail, my mom would always tell me it had something to do with him having a bad license plate. He was in jail for around 5-6 years, then he got deported, so I actually didn’t see/meet up with him up until this November for the first time in 8 years (I’m 18 now)

Then, in December my siblings and I went out to eat with him but he noticed I had been crying after I came back from the bathroom (long story). We went to Walmart after that and he asked me walk with him alone while my siblings went their separate ways because they knew something was wrong. I didn’t want to tell him why I was crying, so he started telling me shit he did that I didn’t know about as a little kid.

He told me that he actually went to jail for being a drug dealer. He said he used to sell tons of pounds of weed before and after meeting my mom. He said he even had some boxes full of hundreds of thousands of dollars when he met her. He started showing me pictures of weed farms his old friends still ran in Denver. That explains why we were always spoiled, especially every birthday and holiday we had, up until he was arrested.

Now, around this time of him being here again, he found out that I had been repeatedly molested by one of my mom’s family members when I was 4-5 years old. Fast forward to the first Christmas party we had with him, everyone was drinking a fuck ton. My dad was pretty drunk and he ended up sitting me down. He looked me in the eyes and told me that he will kill the man that molested me one day. Then I started laughing it off because I didn’t know how to respond. He looked me dead in the eyes and said, “Do you think I’m joking? You and your siblings don’t know me. Would you guys hate me if you knew I’ve killed someone before?” I was speechless but I told him that of course we’d still love him regardless because he’s our dad. I really didn’t know how to react in this situation. Needless to say, I really want to ask him more about his past but I don’t want to feel nosey.

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