“Please be at peace father,
I'm at peace with you,
bitterness isn't worth clinging to,
after all the anguish we've all been through.”

—  Mariah Carey

"Sunflowers For Alfred Roy", Charmbracelet, 2002. Dedicated to Carey’s father, Alfred Roy
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