Dad,
I'm going on my first date tonight. It's with Lea, I wrote to you about her when I was little. When I still thought you might write back.
Though it's not like I'm sending these letters anywhere. They're all stuffed between my thin mattress and the floor. It would make Mom so sad if she found them.
-Anthony

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Letters To You: Being Left Behind
Short StoryNo one wants to be abandoned. So when young Anthony finds out his father is gone, he starts to write letters to the man as a way of coping. Through the letters he writes, follow Anthony's journey in life as he tries to get by without his father to...