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The Unfinished Letter
#WritcoStoryPrompt21
'My dear child,
I know you had your doubts about your birth. I couldn't tell you while I was alive so I left you this letter. Your real parents live in...'
I stared at the unfinished letter in shock. How was I supposed to find my true identity?
**The Letter in the Attic**
My heart pounded as I sat on the dusty attic floor, gripping the old letter in my hands. The faded ink blurred with age, but the words were unmistakable: *My dear child, I know you had your doubts about your birth. I couldn’t tell you while I was alive, so I left you this letter. Your real parents live in...* The sentence stopped there, trailing off with a messy smear, as if the writer had been interrupted.
I stared at it, my thoughts spinning in a whirlwind. I had always suspected something was off about my adoption, but I never expected this—a letter from my birth mother, left behind in an attic I never thought to search until...
'My dear child,
I know you had your doubts about your birth. I couldn't tell you while I was alive so I left you this letter. Your real parents live in...'
I stared at the unfinished letter in shock. How was I supposed to find my true identity?
**The Letter in the Attic**
My heart pounded as I sat on the dusty attic floor, gripping the old letter in my hands. The faded ink blurred with age, but the words were unmistakable: *My dear child, I know you had your doubts about your birth. I couldn’t tell you while I was alive, so I left you this letter. Your real parents live in...* The sentence stopped there, trailing off with a messy smear, as if the writer had been interrupted.
I stared at it, my thoughts spinning in a whirlwind. I had always suspected something was off about my adoption, but I never expected this—a letter from my birth mother, left behind in an attic I never thought to search until...
