Destiny Rios: Life 1 | Page 12

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The Letter

Dear Daddy,

This is going to be a letter of me telling you how things have been since you went away, and most of all how much I love you because there is no one that could have been a better dad than you were.

Since I was born you tried to be the best Dad you could be, considering you had a job that needed you to travel all over the country. From the earliest I could remember you always had a smile on your face, and you always tried to put a smile on my face whenever I was sad. My greatest memories were when you and I would just joke around and make each other laugh. I know most of that was before the divorce, but we tried to see each other when it was your weekends. I never once regretted spending time with you when it was just you and I.

I know you knew that I didn’t like your new wife but that was only because she tried telling you that I didn’t care about you, but I really did! You’re my dad for that matter. Then there was when I just couldn’t see you anymore because she would always be there and she tried to isolate you from me and she threatened you. I remember the last time you and I had spent the day together. It was the time where you basically didn’t know if you should risk getting caught by the wife to see me or not see me. I’m so glad you chose to see me Daddy. That last time ’s when I really figured out that we really were alike and that I was proud to have you as my father and no one else’s.

I never would have guessed that would be the last time I would see you alive and it crushes me to know that, beyond any belief you do not know how hard it has been since you have been gone. Even though you were divorced and didn’t end on that well of terms I know Mom misses you. Some days I know she really misses you. She once told me that she would never love another man as much as she loved you. I know that’s true because she will always smile when she tells me that I look just like you.