Dad,
Bella will be home for Christmas this year. I'm not sure how many more I can expect her to return to since gaining her own independence. She loves college and doing well in all her courses. She is eager to see the world and experience as much as she can. I always feared that. I told her she was like a wild horse the moment she was born, and I felt like I had to bridle her from the minute she found her own feet. Is that how it felt to raise me? I am so scared, Daddy. I never want to stifle her soul and magic, but the panic of letting her loose into the great unknown... sometimes I can't breathe when I think of it. I have had to live without you, and at times, I don't think I was alive inside. The thought of something like that happening to Bella... I wouldn't survive one second. I'm so sorry for all the times I disappointed you and broke your heart. I don't deserve to have such an amazing daughter after what I did. I will never forget how good you were to me, Daddy. I try daily to live up to how you were. I never want to be on the receiving end of the type of pain I put you through that day. Lord knows that I deserve it even though you didn't. I love you, and I am sorry.
Kate
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RomantizmKate Rowell is a young and studious girl with a tortured past who falls for Gabriel Perez, a handsome and popular outgoing football player. Soon, her feelings for him are reciprocated. While she is doing everything to stay in the shadows of safety...
