Answer:
D. Mine
Explanation:
Possessive pronouns, like regular pronouns (me, you, they), are simply words which replace nouns and refer to something or someone. The difference being that these pronouns indicate ownership. Mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours and yours are good examples of strong possessive pronouns.
The sentence had repetitive words replaced with synonyms and pronouns. "but my father disliked..." is too much alike to "my father disliked" so it would get tedious and harder to read.
They replaced it with "but he hated ... " to get some variation.
B.Explains why the paper is written.
Hope this helps(this statement is overused)