Opened Sores by Zarah Smith (uplifting books for women .TXT) 📖

have grown to be such a lovely woman. Since I know you're reading this, that means that I probably am not alive. That was my intention. I planned everything out from the day you were born. Assuming that I am dead, I left you because I knew that you did not need me anymore. You have the love of your boyfriend and your mother.

Live your life and don't be afraid. That was the whole point of my "lesson." Don't be afraid of the world, don't be weak. You may have not noticed, but I noticed how you would go into your little "cocoon" and you cut off your whole social life. That's not right. I knew that eventually you'd have to open up and when you did, it was time for me to make the final moves. So I did and I ended up exactly where I wanted to end up: right where I am.

Do me a favor will you? Don't forget your father.

Love,
Your dad.

Alyssa read the note over and over again. He was right, she didn't hate her. There was no way that she could hate him. The truth was, she loved him even though she didn't understand him. A tear fell from her eye. These words that she held in her hands were the only nice things that he has ever said to her and she held it close to her heart. She thought that she must be crazy as well. Had it been anyone else, they would never forgive such a person for doing things like my father did and although he thought that she couldn't understand, she really did understand.

Alyssa peered over her shoulder and watched her mother and sister wait for her. Alyssa stood up and held a bouquet of flowers in her hands. She stepped towards his grave and neatly placed it next to the gravestone. She wiped her face with the back of her hand and muttered her last words.

"I love you too, dad."

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Publication Date: 06-26-2011

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