Dad,
...I don't know what to say.
I'm in the hospital, Theo found me and called an ambulance.
He's asleep in the chair beside my bed, and Mom is rushing home from a conference.
After they pumped the pills from my stomach, the doctors said my dad was a great man, and did everything right by getting me here.
Theo is pretty great.
All I know right now is that I'm happy to be alive.-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...