My sisters and I grew up in a single-parent household. My mother, who was sickly and frequently in and out of the hospital, remarried. Our new father was a wealthy man, and our lives changed completely. My father had my mother hospitalized in a large hospital so that she could focus on treating her illness. We thought that my mother would soon be released from the hospital and we would all be able to live a happy life together as a family... but my father... was different.