Which of the following inferences about the speaker’s father is best supported by the following passage (lines 40–45)?

Trust me, I know what loss smells like:
the way fear and revolution play tug of war
on doorsteps, uproot loved ones from
framed pictures on walls, steal a father
from the dinner table – I can only hope
mine hears me now.
A. The civil war took her father away from the family.
B. The speaker is afraid to speak to her father.
C. The speaker never knew her father; she just saw a photograph of him.
D. The speaker’s father was not allowed to immigrate with his family to the United States.