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“My parents divorced when I was around 10. My mom left, leaving my dad with his three daughters. I was the youngest and closest with my mom pre-divorce, so I struggled for a really long time with it. My dad often stayed up late with me just so I could talk, since I didn’t really have anyone to talk to about everything. One night, I told him how much this one band meant to me, that their music and funny videos they made had made me genuinely happy again, something I was really trying to hold onto. I had had the opportunity to travel to possibly meet them at a CD signing, but my dad had said no. After hearing me that night express the importance of this group to me, he went to his office downstairs and bought tickets to a concert of theirs coming up that summer. Mind you, he is disabled and we really probably didn’t have the money for these tickets.”
“He came back upstairs and told me to check my email. I did, and there were the tickets. My sister went with me. It was great. And what my dad doesn’t know is that, if he hadn’t bought those tickets and given me something to look forward to, I may have not even held on until summer. Thankfully, by the time the concert came and went, I started to get better mentally. He helped me keep going during a dark time, in many ways.”
—ellave
