He Did It！！！

Today, my dad is the best dad I could ask for.

今天，我的爸爸是我能拥有的最好的爸爸。

He’s a loving husband to my mom (always making her laugh), he’s been to every one of my soccer games since I was 5 (I’m 17 now), and he provides for our family as a construction foreman.

他是个疼爱老婆的好丈夫，总是逗她笑。从我5岁起，我的每一场足球比赛，他都去观战（我现在17岁了）。他是个建筑工头，支撑着我们一家的生活。

This morning when I was searching through my dad’s toolbox for a pliers, I found a dirty folded up paper at the bottom. It was an old journal entry in my dad’s handwriting dated exactly one month before the day I was born.

今天早上我在爸爸的工具箱里找钳子，在箱底翻到了一张脏兮兮的折起来的纸。那是一篇旧日记，是爸爸的字迹，日期正是我出生的一个月前。

It reads, “I am eighteen years old, an alcoholic who is failing out of college, a past cutter, and a child abuse victim with a criminal record of auto theft. And next month, ‘teen father’ will be added to the list. But I swear I will make things right for my little girl. I will be the dad I never had.”

纸上写着：“我18岁了，是一个辍学的酗酒者，一个曾经自残过的人，一个有汽车偷盗记录的虐童受害者。而下个月，我的身份又多一个——未成年父亲。但我发誓，我一定要为了我的小女儿让一切变好。我要成为那种自己从未拥有过的父亲。”

And I don’t know how he did it, but he did it.

我不知道他是如何做的，但他做到了。