Father-Daughter Ad Has a Heart-Wrenching Twist

Elise Solé
Updated

A new ad that shows the sacrifices parents make for the happiness of a child has been making the Internet rounds and it will give you all sorts of feelings.

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In the ad for life insurance company MetLife Hong Kong called “My dad’s story: Dream for My Child,” a little girl hands a letter to her father that calls him “The sweetest daddy in the world,” “the most handsome,” “the smartest,” and “the most clever.” She adds, “He is my Super Man.” Her father is then shown treating his daughter to dinner at a restaurant, helping her with homework, buying her ice cream in the park, and cheering her on as she wins an award at school.

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Then the little girl adds, “Daddy is just great but…he lies. He lies about having a job. He lies about having money. He lies that he’s not tired. He lies that he’s not hungry. He lies that we have everything. He lies because of me.”

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Then we see the father that his daughter truly sees — an exhausted man who works multiple jobs washing dishes and windows and other hard labor. He begs a recruiter to hire him, he takes public transportation home at night, and he does it all with a smile so his daughter will never worry. It’s been streamed more than 1.2 million times on YouTube since it was posted in late January.

Here’s to hardworking parents, everywhere.

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