To: Danny L Casto
From: Michelle Love Casto
Re: Emotional Abandonment and Cruelty
#metoo Abandoned by Father
March 1, 2018
I have to get this heaviness off my chest and “return it ALL to sender”–Danny Casto.
Growing up, I adored you and felt more connected to you than to my emotionally imbalanced mother.
I had very little support from either of you, though.
You used to say a phrase, that I think is quite profound, “that person is a Poor excuse for a human.”
I would like you and the world to know that after 30+ years of trying to reunite with you after you abandoned me (when you divorced her), and started a new family, that YOU are the Poor Excuse for both a human being and most definitely a father.
A father’s love and guidance is essential to the positive self-esteem of a daughter.
You were never really there for me growing up and have been MIA in my adulthood.
I am the kind of daughter anyone would love to have and you treat me like I am nothing.
Shame on YOU.
I spent too many decades thinking it was “shame on me” “there must be something wrong with me to have your own
father disenfranchise and outcast me.” From where I stand, you have no real idea of what it means to be an empowered
man. You are the part of the Patriarchy that must be destroyed, for it is dark and abusive.
I now send back to you all the shame, pain and disappointment that I have been carrying about our lack of connection,
I do this with love attached so as not create more negative karma between us.
But I must say publicly that I think you are a selfish, egotistical, narcissistic man who got what he wanted in life and didn’t care
to help me even one tiny bit., even when you were legally obligated to, way back.
Even though I have forgiven you, I hope there is a special place in the afterlife for so-called fathers like you.
I am thankful I had the internal strength and fortitude to take a positive path of creation and coaching to help serve others.
But that was entirely MY doing, for which I give myself credit, acknowledge, praise and Love.
