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WATCH: In My Feed - Kirk Franklin Speaks Out After Releasing ‘Father’s Day,' Says Traumas Are Transferable

By Essence · Updated October 24, 2023
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“It has turned my world upside down because I thought I had a daddy. I thought I had a daddy that I hated. I thought I had a daddy that was absent, and the sad truth is, that’s still my experience,” Franklin says. “Just because you get introduced to love, doesn’t mean that you naturally respond to it. I spent 53 years hating a man because he wasn’t there, but it was also a man that had this hate that he didn’t deserve.”

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