Elena missed all of it.
Birthdays.
First days of school.
Graduations.
Christmas mornings.
Broken arms.
First dates.
The ordinary things.
The things that become a childhood.
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Sometimes there were letters.
The girls sent them.
Most came back.
Return to sender.
Some never returned at all.
Nobody knew whether Elena had read them.
Their father kept every one.
He never threw anything away.
Even the drawings.
Especially the drawings.
Fifteen years passed.
Then Chloe got engaged.
And three months before the wedding, Elena contacted her.Book Venues
The message was simple.
I heard you’re getting married.
I would like to come.
Chloe stared at it for almost an hour.
Then she called her father.
He answered on the second ring.
“Everything okay?”
“Mom wants to come.”
There was a long silence.
Finally, he said:
“What do you want?”
That was always how he answered difficult questions.
