Chloe was visiting her sick mother, Helen, two or three times in a week. As Helen was terminally ill, Chloe was afraid that her each visit might be the last time.
One day, Helen asked when Chloe, her daughter will have her own children.
“Maybe one day, Mom,” Chloe responded as she kept cooking.
As Chloe started to clean the home, she went into the attic. She found a doll from her childhood, which she would play a lot with it.
As she kept cleaning the attic, she found a locked box sitting in the corner. She gently broke the lock with the help of a hammer, and found a dozen of letters in it. They were the letters from a man Chloe never knew, her father.
They were love letters for Helen, where she never thought that her father and mother had that kind of relationship. She never believed that her father loved her mother that much, as he was writing in the letter.
When it was time for the last letter, she found that it was in a sealed envelope. It was untouched. She decided to ask her mother about it.
“I was cleaning the attic today, and I found a box. It had old letters. From Dad.”
When Helen heard that Chloe read the letters, she was furious. She screamed, “I don’t want to see those letters ever again! That one especially—I never opened it for a reason. As long as I live, you will never read this letter! Swear!”
She desperately wanted to know what was written on the letter. She calmed herself down, and opened the letter.
The letter started from the words of her father. He wrote that he loves Helen and that he will be there with his daughter and wife as soon as his tour with the theater was over. Then, at one place the letter was cut. Then a friend of her father, Frank, continued.
“Helen, I’m Frank’s friend Josh. I’m sorry to inform you that Frank lost his life. A fire started during the play, and he heroically saved the crew while he lost his life doing so. In his last words were he said that he loves Helen and Chloe. I’m sorry again.”
As Chloe read that, she rushed towards her mother’s bedroom. She confronted her about why she never told her that her father loved her and that he was going to come back after the tour was over. He didn’t leave them alone. He just died. He died loving them.
“He loved me, and he loved you. But he loved his work more. There was a fire during one of his performances. He stayed behind to help save people.” Helen said in tears.
Helen told her daughter that she never read the last letter. Then Chloe asked if she would like to hear what her husband wrote.
As Helen hesitated, she smiled with a tear drop falling from her eye and said, “I’d love that.”
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