Only After I Died Did My Dad Start to Love Me

Dad hated me because he was forced to marry Mom because of me. On my eighteenth birthday, I called him and begged him to come save me. "Dad, there's a strange man in the house. Please come save me." "Or I'm going to die." But Dad only sneered. "Good. If you're going to die, then go ahead and die." Later, I died on my birthday. Dad, who had always hated me, went mad. 01 I'd known ever since I was born that Dad didn't like me. Mom loved me very much. More than once, she held me close and wished I could grow up safe, happy, and well. But when I asked her in my babyish voice, "Where did Dad go?"