“This is something you have to understand about being a parent—some people just aren’t cut out for it. Some people don’t have what it takes. And I didn’t. But I’m here now. And I’m hoping that we can make something of all this. I just…I simply couldn’t before. But now I think I have what it takes. And I want to be a part of your lives now. I want to…get dinners and, I don’t know, spend holidays together or whatever it is that families do. I want that.”

