“If My Daughter’s A General, Then I’m A Ballerina,” He Said—Until The Doors Opened

me General in front of everyone who’d spent twenty years pretending I was nothing.

I think about the Ambassador I extracted. The lives I’ve saved. The wars I’ve prevented.

And I know: I chose the right path.

Not the easy one.

Not the one my family wanted.

But the right one.

The one that mattered.

And if my father still can’t accept that, well—

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