I was watching a movie tonight and I've seen this movie a few times. And everytime I watch it, it makes my heart hurt.
There was a dad and he was addicted to heroin.
He decided to leave his family (Wife and 7 year old son) because he couldn't quit his addiction. He can into his sons room before he left and his son shows him his tooth that he just lost. The father tells the son that he is leaving and the son crys and says he wants to come with him. The father says that he doesn't think that would be a good idea. The father says to the son
" Your going to hear a lot of bad things about me, but only two out of three of those things are going to be true." So when you hear something really really bad, just think to yourself that's the one that isn't true.
So the father walks out and the boy grabs his tooth brush and runs after him as his father rides away his motorcycle.
Years later when the boy is older...About 22 he sees his father again. His father is still a heroin addicted and lives in a trailer, his teeth are rotting out of his mouth. The father tells the boy that the best thing he could have done was go away, and that he would like to think that he played a small part in the way the boy turned out, even if it was just because of that fact he left. The boy hugs his father as he leaves and his father puts a piece of paper in his pocket and walks away. When the boy checks his pocket inside of the paper was the tooth he had lost the night his father left.