I'll try to keep this short but touch all the major points. I'm a 25 year old male from the Bible belt. My parents split when I was 4. All my life I was made to believe my father had abandoned us. I used to cry myself to sleep when I was a child, wishing I had a dad like my friends did. My great aunt, Betty Jo, and my grandma (both paternal relatives) used to practically raise me. I'd stay with them for months at a time while my mother worked. While at Betty Jo's house she would always have me p..