Dad,
I'm changing. I'm growing up. I'm not your little girl anymore. Oh how I wish you could understand and accept that! I love you with all my heart, and want only to please you... But lately I feel like I can't. I try though! Do I ever try!!
Please try to be happy for me. Please support me! I need you more than ever right now. I need to hear you tell me that everything is going to be fine. I need you to hold me when I cry.
And yet, I don't need those things... Those are the things I am trying to grow out of. I will forever be your daughter, but I cannot forever be your little girl. I must grow up sometime, you know.