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Submitted to Contest #278
I never should have left, especially not then.The letter had shown up three months ago, and it had taken this long until I could open it. The name was one I knew almost as well as my own: Kaitlin’s father. That line stuck out to me so jaggedly that I wanted to throw it into the fireplace, followed by anything else in the house that reminded me of him.Instead, I took a deep breath and started reading over. Surely, somewhere in this handwritten piece of trash, he would explain why he had not only bailed but had remained totally absent for almo...
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