“My heart sank. I could tell by her voice I had to get home. I still hear the words as she fought back breaking down. ‘We have to go. We have to get there!’ I remember having thought, ‘He seems better. He seems more like himself.’ My dad was back. Boy, was I wrong.”
‘I love you, sweetie. I’ll call you Friday.’ Those words will forever haunt me. I received a call from my mom when school ended. ‘This is the hardest thing I’ll ever tell you.’ I fell to the floor.’
‘He’s been saving his pocket change. I thought nothing of it ’til I came home from work to this’: Daughter finds pill bottle, instantly ‘bursts into tears’
“I love you, and it is going to be okay. Daddy’s going to be okay.”
