Call Me Daddy
I had tried to stay away from the television because of the second hand embarrassment, but when my eyes caught it again as Dane kept me by his side, the camera angle was on my dad, up close, and he was being escorted into a van, in handcuffs, alongside a female officer.
In the midst of that, something maddening happened.
I watched his eyes shake the second his eyes fell on the female officer. This man experienced and underwent real shock, the real tightening and closing in of his lungs, he just passed out.
My father passed out on live television.
I had no reactions left in me, or so I thought, as he was bundled and driven away, presumably to a hospital first.
I forced myself not to lose my m