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Let's imagine, just for a moment, that ten years ago, you got a call from the other side of the country that said your father was dead. And although you hadn't actually seen the body, you basically accepted this as fact, since the person who called to tell you was his girlfriend, and she sent you back his stuff, and they had a funeral and everything.
Let's also say, just for kicks, that when all of this took place, you weren't on great terms with your father. That in the past four months before he died, you'd talked to him a total of four times, and each one of those conversations was more strained than the one before, because you knew all sorts of things about your dad and his life that he'd lied to you about. For years. Big, life-changing things.
Let's also suppose that when this news comes in, your father was in the process of not only changing his name to something completely different, but also of making himself younger by forging his birth certificate that he filed with the name change.
Then let's say that for ten years, you sit with all of this knowledge in your head and wonder, off and on, if he's really dead, or if it's all some elaborate ruse just to escape his ever-increasingly-complicated life.
So now, let's imagine that you get involved in a contest that requires you to write a letter to someone as part of a round of game play. Let's say you choose your father, and you start writing. But as you write, you become increasingly convinced that he isn't, in fact, dead, that instead he and the girlfriend have taken off to other parts unknown and are living under different names, having abandoned you as part of what came before.
Let's say that as the day goes on, the idea takes over your head (again--it's done this before), to the point where it distracts you from all sorts of other things.
What do you do?
How far do you go to settle for yourself, once and for all, that your father really died?
What does it take to convince you that even if, by some weird twist of life, he is still alive, that he's dead now to you.
What does it take to make you let go and move on?
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...just asking...
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