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Michelle Dominique Burk is a PhD Fellow in the University of Houston's Literature and Creative Writing Department. She lives in Houston.
I’ve had a Dad I’ve called “Dad”
but I’ve also had a “Daddy” and the girls who’ve gotten flowers at work,
celebrated their birthdays in Vegas, will tell you that those two aren’t
the same thing. At all.
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