Letters to Dad pt. 1

Dear Dad,

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have grown up with you. Would I turn out differently? Would my life be completely different?

Love,

Abby.

Dear Dad,

I just turned 10 today. Mum told me she’s really proud of me. I’ve been doing well at school, but sometimes I wish you were here to be proud of me too.
I hope you’re proud of me somewhere.

Love,

Abby.

Dear Dad,

Fourth grade is not as easy as I thought it would be. I’m not making many friends and a boy today told me you left mum and me because you didn’t love us enough. I wish you could’ve been there to tell him he was lying and that you love us very much.

But you’re not.

Abby.

Dear Dad,

It’s Father’s day this weekend and our teacher told us to make cards for our dads. It was kind of weird when someone said, “But Abby doesn’t have a dad.”
So I’m making a card for mum instead.

Are you coming back? Ever?
Love,

Abby.

Dear Dad,

It’s mum’s birthday today, so I tried making her a cake. It didn’t turn out very well, but mum was happy anyways. I gave her flowers I picked from the park.

I wonder what you would have given her.

Love,

Abby.

Dear Dad,

Mum said your birthday is tomorrow, so I made you a card with stars and a drawing of our house. I told mum I was going to put it in the mail, because the mailman knows where everybody lives. She told me she’d do it herself, but I saw her throw it in the bin before I went to bed.

Why did she do that, dad?
Love,

Abby.

Dear Dad,

It’s my birthday today. I just turned 11! I checked the mail three times today, just to make sure you had sent me a present, but nothing came this year either.

I guess the mail lost it. But I’ll wait.

Love,

Abby.

Dear Dad,

I just turned 16. Mum baked me a cake and gave me flowers, just like when I tried baking her a cake a few years ago. They are beautiful, and the cake was delicious.

It’s summer again, and mum told me I took my first steps during summer too. She said you were there.

I wish you were here now.

Love,

Abby.

Dear Dad,

It’s been a few years since I’ve last written you. I’m off to college next week and I’m scared of leaving mum alone. She’s very lonely, and doesn’t have many friends. I’m scared of leaving too.

She’s my best friend. I wish you would come back to stay with her so I feel safer.

Abby.

Dear Dad,

Mum’s doing okay. I’m home from college now for Christmas. She looks tired. She showed me a picture of you today. We look alike. I wonder if you have a picture of me somewhere.

Love,

Abby.

Dear Dad,

College is hard. I’m trying my best, though. Mum sent me a letter the other day and she said how proud she was of me, just like when I graduated high school. She doesn’t talk much about you anymore. I guess she thinks you’re never coming back.

But I’m still waiting.

Love,

Abby.

Dear Dad,

Mum is sick. We can’t afford the hospital bills on mum’s salary, so I’m dropping out to work.

We need you here.

Love,

Abby.

Dear Dad,

Mum is getting worse. She cries a lot. I do too, but I don’t want her to see me crying. I have to be strong for her.

Would you be strong? Would you stay with her at the hospital day and night?

Abby.

Dear Dad,

I take mum flowers every day. I don’t want her to see flowers wilt. She told me you used to do the same thing when she was expecting.

She smiled today.

Love,

Abby.

Dear Dad,

I had to work a double-shift, and the flowers wilted.

Mum didn’t make it through the night.

I’m alone.

Please come back.

Abby.

Dear Dad,

Mum’s gone. I miss her. I miss my best friend. I feel so lonely.

I wish you were here…

Abby.

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I'll be posting the second part of this next week! :)