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How I Helped My Dad Heal His Broken Heart One Father's Day

A delightful story written in the voice of the main character Adam, who I'd six years old in the story.

It starts out with a letter to the reader, from his mom and then goes into his recollection of the day he helped his dad heal from a broken heart.

The following excerpt includes part of his moms letter then jumps into a portion of the story thy shows you what a delight it I'd to read.

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. . . Adam, an angel of a child, six years old at the time, came up with an idea for how he could help us both to heal, especially his dad, who was taking the loss a lot worse than I was. After that day he was so excited and happy about what he did that he wanted to share it with everyone. I corrected most of the spelling and some of the grammar, but I left a lot of the mistakes because I didn't want to lose his voice. I hope you enjoy reading about it at least, half as much as I enjoyed being a part of it.

-Andrea

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Adam's Letter

Today was Father's Day. I am glad they have a day just for dads. My daddy is the greatest person in the whole wide world. Today I got to show him that. My name is Adam, an I'm six years old. My daddy is named Adam too, so that makes me a junior and makes him a senior. I am going to tell you what I did for my daddy for father's day.

First I got to tell you about my baby sister. She was born four months ago. She died right after she came out of my mommy because she had a bad heart. Mommy and daddy wanted a daughter really bad. Her death made my mom and dad very, very sad. It made me very, very sad too. I wanted to have a little sister. I would of made a great older brother and would of played with her all the time. I don't think it was very fair that she had to leave us so very soon. Even though I didn't know her very much, I loved her a whole, whole lot.

I tried to make mommy feel better after the funeral, cause she was real sad all the time. And she cried a lot too. I told her not to worry cause God could give us another little girl. But, she told me that the doctors told her she better not ever try to get pregnant again. She said it was because she was soooo sick the whole time she was pregnant and because the doctor man thought she was going to die when my sister was coming out. I also heard her one time talking to someone and she told them she almost died when I was born'd too.

I know that was sad, but you needed to know that to understand........