Clare was sent back to her father when her mother realised Clare was not her daughter from her current marriage, but from her ex-husband.
By Clare’s own account, her father sacrificed and brought her up well. Her internalized anger at her mother exploded into teenaged drug abuse and rejection of her father.
Now an adult in her late twenties, she writes what all this has done with her relationship with her father and her mother.
Among which, she writes she learnt forgiveness from her father.
Forgiveness. Never learnt the easy way, isn’t it?
Read the details here - Guardian.
