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FATHER AND I LIVE IN a two-bedroom apartment It's small and old, but neat and cozy with faded floallpaper and oak flooring that I happily shine every weekend It's not perfect, but it is home, and it's always been my happy place

Father's pension ensures that our rent is always paid, and the small amount left over covers the rest of our bills Father has never askedsince I was thirteen, and I use es to help put food on the table

Even so, ht, and it was only when I started earning tips froe When we just want to have a nice dinner at hoe ourselves with iant, we buy ourselves caviar

I know it doesn't match our income bracket, but Father has always had a love for the finer things in life, and I grew up listening to his that only rich and cultured people should typically know about

It's because of Father that I know more about Beethoven than BTS or Beyonce, and it's also because of him that the other kids in school bully et lots of snickering and eye rolls The bad days, though - they get really bad, but I've never blamed Father for it I love him as he is, and so he does as ithI wished was different

Well

Father, for all his conservative ways, has always encouraged'safe search' settings on Google is tantamount to intellectual oppression in his eyes And I know he et that there are just sos in this world that a child is never supposed to see

Things that, once seen, can never be unseen, and a child's life is changed forever

SOME CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT to dreae was to dream dirty

I was eight when I stumbled across my first porn site, and the video that automatically played on hties: a woht, but instead of getting home safely she had ended up in the woods, with the cab driver having his ith her in the backseat

I had known, even back then, that I had so I wasn't supposed to watch, but instead of telling my father about it, I had kept quiet