Single fatherhood is rarely something carefully planned. More often, it is a role forced upon you by life’s unpredictability and the pressure of financial survival. I learned to define success not through personal milestones, but through the strength and determination of my six-year-old daughter, Mira. We lived in a small low-income apartment filled with the mixed smells of neighbors’ cooking and the constant fatigue that came from never fully resting. My days followed a relentless rhythm: mornings with the city sanitation department, clearing clogged drains and maintaining infrastructure, and nights cleaning corporate offices, polishing marble floors in buildings that felt...
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