Dear John

Sami

July 15, 1993

Dear Daddy,

Can you come home now? Pops got really angry when he found out about the baby. He yelled, he screamed, he called Mom all types of really bad names...really bad ones. The kind you told me no one should ever say to someone. Don't get mad if I write this, okay, but he called her a "slut" and a "f*cking whore"! He said that she "couldn't keep her legs closed" around you. I was scared, but I was soooooo mad too! I came down to check on Mom, and then I saw Pops in her face, screaming...he pushed her...hard, and she hit the wall! I screamed, and ran back upstairs. I called Grandma crying, but she told me that I had to call the police. I was so scared, and Mom was crying, and crying, later, just sitting on the floor. Uncle Abe came, though, and he took Pops to the police station, but Mom wouldn't press charges. She kept saying he didn't mean to do it, and he was just angry because of what she did. I don't care what she did, you don't call people those names and you don't push a pregnant woman into a wall. That's not okay!

Pops moved out. He's been staying at the pub, but I heard him tell Grandpa and Grandma that he's leaving Salem. Apparently, he's been talking to Uncle Shane about going back to work for the ISA. I don't care what he does. I hate him! I hate him so bad! When he thinks I'm not around he says really disgusting things about Mom to Grandpa and Uncle Bo. Mom said that I'm just angry, and eventually I'll forgive him...but I don't think I will. He told Uncle Bo he hated you. He said you stole his life, but don't believe that. Please, don't believe that. Come home.

Eric said, if he was here, he would have fought Pops. That scares me too, because if he would've fought Pops, he'd have been hurt pretty bad, I think. If you come home, so we can be a family again, Eric told me he would come home, too. Now that we're going to have a little sister, can you come back to Salem?

I love you Daddy!

Sami