Mom said, “We’re doing Thanksgiving with just the well-behaved kids. Yours can skip this year.” My daughter started crying, so I typed back one calm line—and my family kept laughing, posting table selfies, unaware of what that message was about to set in motion. I’m Braden, 34, a single dad to an eight-year-old girl named Amanda—the kind of kid who makes up songs and turns napkins into origami animals while she talks a mile a minute. She’s bright, affectionate, and loud in the way happy kids are

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