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This show has great acting by everyone especially the small girl and father. I was moved to see the aftermath of loosing loved one and all the experiences of grief everyone felt. The premise of the show is that the FL breaks up with her college bf (ML) to deliver the baby and raise her as a single parent. The ML finds out at her funeral the existence of his daughter who’s 7 years old and seems to know all about him. What ruined this premise was that the FL had no compelling reason as to why she cut off the ML from his daughter. She justifies it as her not wanting to take away his choice which clearly was a catastrophic failure. Everyone around her treats her as a free spirit and independent with no criticism or calling her out on her selfishness. She tells everyone that ML is a great guy but doesn’t want him involved while telling his daughter all about him. The cruelty of keeping a child away from a good father for any reason is not justifiable. Even after her terminal diagnosis she makes no attempt to reach out to the ML or face consequences of her decision. She died being stubborn in her choice and let her mother/daughter/ML deal with the consequences. The FL’s friend who clearly is madly in love with her gripes at the ML who is trying to step up as the father. He puts her on a pedestal and can’t accept no fault in her but, blames the ML for not being aware of a situation he was purposely kept out of. The FL was the antagonist of this story and it wasn’t a fated bad luck situation the writers want us to believe. I am disappointed to drop this otherwise emotional, sweet show with great actors. I just couldn’t look past the flaw in the FL and have only empathy without anger while watching this.