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   I am now 20 years old, I met my Dad for the first time 10 years ago. Months after meeting him, he was incarcerated yet again. Three years later, he writes me, letting me know he was now in for rape, in which he claims innocence, yet pleads guilty. Before knowing the seriousness of his claim, I wanted to get to know my Dad because it seemed we had so much in common. Yet afterwards, I wanted nothing to do with him. If guilty, he committed this crime when I was about 4 years old. So I feel he didnt think about me at all, that the same thing he did to another female could easily happen to his own daughter. Last year I learned he also molested another female so I feel he never learned his lesson. He went on to claim I was the reason for him being locked up in the first place. He had wanted to buy me something for my birthday, so he stuck someone up to get the money. Now we havent spoken in a year, I told him he was a grown man and should have gotten a job and he didnt like what I had to say. He would never give me the answers that I wanted, proof of his innocence, and that scared me more, proving he had done something so unforgiving. The reason I write now is, he's going to be released within a week and he lives very close to me. About 10 minutes on foot, and though we havent spoken, he is the type to just pop up out the blue. Im wondering if I should continue on with my life and not pay him any mind, or if I should hear him out, let him in my life and accept that eventually he may be out of my life just as fast. Can you please help me out here!? I dont know what to feel, I'm scared, nervous, but also excited and I dont know how I should feel about the whole situation.

- Jane Doe of Manhattan
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