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Rachel McKibbons and her dad, Pete Camacho, stop talking and resume talking many times over the course of her life. He could be generous, he could be mean and

drunk, she learned how to be mean. She left California, moved across the country. She loved him when she could and she never

wrote him off. She made sure her kids knew the good version of him. When COVID

started Rachel and her father were in a barely talking phase.

But a few months in, he emailed her.

Trying to find the email where he reached out.

So I think the word was infusion.

Infusion meant he was sending money.

Yep, here we go.

Infusion.

She opened the email.

And it said,

Just want to be sure that my New York family is safe

in all of this please if there's anything you need let me know we're family

after all.

I was like, okay, here's an olive branch.

He sent a thousand dollars to her bank account,

an infusion, it saved the day. Rachel and her partner at the time,

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