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My nine-year-old daughter kept count of every promise her father broke. Ninety-eight notes the day I found her closet wall - ninety-eight times he chose another woman's son over her. I kept telling myself he would change. Then she wrote the hundredth. From a hospital bed. He called himself a self-made man. He never knew how fast it could all disappear - or who had really been holding it up.