[post_page_title]Shattering the foundations of who he was[/post_page_title]
Richard now found himself in a peculiar situation. After 21 years, he’d found out he wasn’t the biological father of any of the three children he thought were his. Then, on top of that, two of them refuse to have anything to do with him because he wanted to make things right.
Where he expected graduations, weddings, and grandchildren, he received only stony silence. These successive blows shattered his perception of who he was. Being a father was a defining part of his self-image, and that has been taken away from him.