A Farewell to My Father
My father just passed April 1, 2024 6:36 PM. For those reading this, I want to make absolutely clear the world lost a great man named John Edward Vaughan. I am Daniel Cullen. Legally, we share no blood, and legally he'd only be my stepfather, but our bond was beyond mere ties of blood. I must confess before he entered my life, I had no father. The worthless waste of a human soul who raped my mother is why I'm here, and she chose to not punish me for his unimaginable crime but to raise me as her son, for which my mother will have my undying loyalty. But until she married John "Johnny" Vaughan, I had no one in my life I acknowledged as my father. Even my grandfather, he was still just my grandfather. She married two other men earlier, both of which amounted to nothing and their departure from her life was one I have no regret over. When she decided to get married a third time, both he and her made a step that was quite unusual at the time but says a lot, more than I re...