Dear Ex-Best Friend,
I miss you so much. This time last year we were having so much fun hanging out, telling stupid jokes, and being ourselves together. I feel like I don't even know you anymore.
You were the one person I knew I could count on for years and years to come. When people were to ask me about you, I could answer. Now I can't even say your name.
And I'm not even sure why we just stopped talking, but one day we were joking around and the next we were complete strangers. We don't talk, text, anything.
Every time I see you hanging out with our friends and being with them like you used to be with me, it feels like I'm being stabbed 100 times in the face. You don't mean to, but you leave me out of everything now.
Maybe it's for the best. Maybe this painful...
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Dear Daddy,
I know this has been said in hundreds of open letters from thankful daughters all around the world but seriously... Thank you.
The things you have taught me are priceless to say the least. I mean, who else can teach me how to change a tire, beat up my brother and love unconditionally.
You see Ive grown up in a home where my mother loves my father and my father loves my mother. This alone has taught me what true love looks like and to never settle. Never ever settle. So I thank you for treating my mother right. I thank you for teaching me how a real man treats a Lady. Because now I have standards that are hard to beat but I believe this will bring me a man just like you. A man that will love me as you do and never anything less.
And now as I approach adult hood,...
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It wasn't too long ago that we were down this same path before. For more than half of my life, I have been a drug addict. This lifestyle of mine kept a certain distance between us that never was spoken much about.
I started using drugs at the young age of 15 to cover any emotion that I never wanted to deal with. It wasn't until I was prescribed to opioids at the age of 26, that I discovered what it meant to be an addict. After 6 months of continuous opioid scripts, my insurance ran out and there wasn't any more scripts written in my name. This addiction to these pills was more than emotional, but physical. I needed these pills to function, to go to work in the morning, to be a productive member of society. I found them on the street and when they became more expensive, I discovered...
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We met in 5th grade, and you've stuck by me ever since. You have not only become my best friend, but you've also become my sister. Seems like just yesterday we were in 5th grade and thinking life was easy and how we are gonna be forever young. Now here we are almost done with freshmen year. You'll be 15 in June, wow one more until you'll start driving. Then in three years, we'll be seniors getting ready for college. You'll go to UCLA and I'll be in Kean University. We'll be miles apart but I'm always going to be there, our friendship is in it for the long run. Then you'll get married to that lucky guy and he better know that you're the best thing that ever happened to him. You'll look amazing, I know it. I hope you understand that you're the coolest girl I know, and I'm so proud to call...
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Open letter to the man who couldn't be father,
I thought of you today, I decided to write this letter because I wanted to share with you the feelings I get every time the thought of you crosses my mind. First things first, please don’t flatter yourself for one second by ever thinking that I am saddened by your absence, I let that hurt go awhile ago. Before I continue, I have to ask ... Are you happy with this life that you chose? Do you love yourself or are you ashamed of the sorry excuse of a man that you became? I'm just curious. I want to thank you for teaching me not to rely on ANY man for validation, happiness, love or security. The greatest thing you could have ever done for me was remove yourself from my life because you proved yourself unworthy of being anyone I would ever...
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Until today I never realised your worth. Until today I never appreciated a single thing you had done. But let me thank you now. Thank you for beating me up regularly. Thank you for letting me know that the man who put his hand inside my tshirt as a kid would've never done so if I was a good girl. Thank you for all the meaningless slut-shaming and for everything you've put me through for the past 20 years.
If you didn't hide the food, mom. I probably would have never learnt the art of proper utilisation of resources otherwise. If you would've protected me from the people who wronged me, dad then I would've never learnt to do that by myself. If you both would've been there for me then I would've never been this strong.
You stole my childhood, but made me grow up before it was late....
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If you're reading this letter, it's likely that you know exactly what I'm talking about, or you were curious. I want to disclose before I even start that I understand there are cases where my words don't apply. I'm not writing you to change your mind, I'm writing you in the hopes that if nothing else, you'll leave this letter with a better understanding. Your son or daughter (for the sake of wordiness, I'll use 'daughter' as my example) is no longer a child; she's grown. Maybe she's eighteen, maybe in her early twenties, and while it seems that every other young adult her age is going away to college or exploring the big wide world of real estate and independent opportunities, she's seeded at home. You're aggravated with her reluctance to go out into the world and do things--why can't she...
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I was blessed by God to have you in my life. Daddy makes my dreams a reality and each day I'm grateful for his loving and caring nature. His doing his best for us and giving up his wants for our needs. So I hope you should never take your Dad for granted. I know I am not a best wife for him and most of the time I am becoming a Monster for all the times that we have a misunderstanding. But all of those times after the heat of my rant subside I know I am the one to throw the towel and initiate the Peace.
I always tell you not to shout at Dad and always love and honor him. He is a very nice man very nice to a fault...
I wanted you both to grow up like him less the super nice to a fault...
Please take good care of Dad if ever Mommy goes to heaven ahead of him and never leave and take him...
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I haven’t met you and never plan on it, but I’ve heard stories about you. I don’t usually determine if I like or don’t like someone until I’ve gotten to know them but I don’t need to meet you to know if I like you or not. You ruined my parents’ marriage so quite frankly, I don’t like you one bit. Hate may even be the word for it. You are the reason that my brother and I didn’t get to grow up with married parents. You are the reason that my parents divorced. You made me and my brother another statistic of being children growing up with divorced parents.
There were two people at fault here, not just you, yes I know that. But you knew that my dad was married, you knew that he had a kid with one on the way, so why did you do it? Why did you insert yourself in the middle of my parents’...
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I was always the typical “daddy’s girl” when I was much younger, I think a little bit of me is still today. I don’t easily hold grudges which is why I can’t dislike you, like I should. I would be upset when I would have to leave you from visiting you every other weekend. I would be upset if you couldn’t make the three hour drive to see my brother and I because you chose having another family over seeing us for just three days. When we had sports you were ticked off that you had to take us or sit and watch us play an hour of the sport(s) that we loved.
Because of your absentness, I have to give all props to my amazing mother for taking up both roles and supporting us. Because of you my mom had to work twice as hard to support having two children in two different sports. Because of you...
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