- 'Cause you are the best thing
that ever happened to me in the world, since you were born,
I'm so connected to you.
I see you as a good person
and everything that you do just makes me love you
and love you and love you.
- Every night, you make it your business.
Without fail, you come, you gave me a hug,
you give me a kiss.
- I wasn't there, and somebody else filled that role
as dad when I was away.
So it was only natural that you would, you know
kinda see him as that father figure.
- And I think because you have two dads,
we don't have those traditional, like mom, dad roles
or female male roles, you know?
So we kind of like, if it needs to get done,
you need to do it. - Yeah.
- This might surprise you but
when you're not doing well,
like I feel so connected to you.
- I mean, you are who you are
as a result of what you went through, right?
So, I get to see the woman you're becoming
and that's an amazing opportunity
but I wished we didn't have to share addiction.
- Yeah.
- Well, you're my best friend because
you're always there for me when I need your help.
- Hmm, excuse me, had a little flush of emotion here.
If this were to be our last conversation,
what is something you never want me to forget?
- I never want you to forget that, wow
don't, I don't want you to ever forget
how much I love you.
I don't want you to forget that
I am who I am because of you
and nobody can take that away from me.
- Back at ya, baby boy. (chuckles)
- I think just how proud I am to be your daughter.
Yeah, I don't think kids say that to their parents a lot
like how proud they are of their parents
but I'm like super proud of you.
Like how much you've grown.
- Describe the first time you felt you really knew me.
- Imma say, when you came to visit me in for a Wint,
I was like, I wasn't arrested, but, you know I was away
and like you been through something like that
so like he was there for me and stuff
and like you wasn't really like judging me and stuff
like everyone else, like yeah,
and you was coming to see me a lot and stuff.
So yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.
It really hurt me to see you there cause like,
when I was a kid, I went,
I've been tons of places like that
and those are like really shitty places, you know
and to see me go through that
and then my like my own daughter is going through that,
just trying to think about ways to like break the cycle.
I think that's probably what I'm so hard on you
about like school, school, school, school, school,
and like trying to warn you about like certain things.
- When I met you, when you came into my life,
I realized for the first time
that I had someone who depended on me a 100%.
I needed to grow up, and I needed to be a man
and I needed to do things that were gonna take care of you
and mommy and myself.
The person that I am today
largely, is because of you.
- Several years ago, I was in the ICU
when I couldn't communicate
and they didn't know whether I was gonna make it or not.
And you came in with the violin in ICU
and I couldn't even move
and you played for me and it was beautiful.
And I tried to applaud by tapping my feet like that.
- How could I forget that moment?
- Right.
- You don't need to do in life
what other people tells you to do
or what people think that it's good to do
or what people, most of your friends do,
you need to do what makes you happy
cause that's the most important thing in life
is to listen to your own heart and your own soul
and follow it because that's best recipe
for you to have a really good, good life
'cause that will make you happy every day.
- Why do you love me?
- I love, I just love you.
I just can't get enough of you.
You're just my, I just love you.
Every time I think about you,
even when it's tenuous and just and difficult
when we're going through something that
it's not like so pleasant.
I still, you bring a smile to my face.
I love everything about you.
I love the kid you have grown into.
I love again, like I said earlier,
that you actually can take time to reflect
and then kinda come to your senses about things, you know?
And I just love you.
I just there's, I love you.
- I love you because you're you,
I love you because you're my dad,
I love you because you're positive, you're funny,
like I said, you're creative.
You'll do whatever you can to make us happy
from time to time and that's why I love you.
I Love you just because-
- Just because?
Because you have to?
No, you don't have to love me.
No, you do have to love me.
- I do.
- Am joking. (chuckles)
- C'mon, hug it out.
- Is that how that ends?
That's how we're doing it? - Hug it up, come here.
I love you dad.