Natalie St.

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“Sorry, Dad” by Natalie St.

Submitted to Contest #79

He came back because it had been too long. Because he had spent so many years unable to watch his daughter grow up, gain friends and lose friends, go to prom, cry the night before graduation because her father wasn’t there to see when they handed her the diploma she had worked so hard for. It had been so difficult for him, he told me. To be deprived of everything a father deserved, for all that time with no way of knowing where his family was or what they were doing. He wanted to fix that. He wanted to meet me again,...

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Homeschool grad, Texan, voracious reader. Trying to write and publish a novel (someday), I have more unfinished projects than is wise or probably even legal. Reedsy is another nice excuse not to work on them.