The Letter

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I was sitting in my room on a normal Tuesday when my dad called me, but his tone of voice was different from his usual cheery voice. I ran downstairs to see what was wrong there my father was sitting at the kitchen table with his head buried in his arms. He looked up at me with his piercing green eyes he handed me a piece of paper. Basically in big bold letters it said cancer. My mom had cancer for three months and she's been out of town getting treatment. I looked up at my dad tears were streaming down his face then I said "moms not coming home is she? " To which he responded "no she's not".

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