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One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love, yet still holding love for him in my heart. No matter what he did, he was my father. He helped create the person I am.

My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.