Forty years after I tucked an unsent letter inside a book, I accidentally gave it away to a library sale. Days later, my high school sweetheart called and read my nineteen-year-old words: “I’m pregnant. I need you.” We realized right then that it wasn’t the lost letter that kept us apart for forty years—it was a lie that robbed us of each other.
When I was nineteen years old, I wrote the most important letter of my life. I never mailed it. For forty years, I believed that single mistake had changed everything. …
Forty years after I tucked an unsent letter inside a book, I accidentally gave it away to a library sale. Days later, my high school sweetheart called and read my nineteen-year-old words: “I’m pregnant. I need you.” We realized right then that it wasn’t the lost letter that kept us apart for forty years—it was a lie that robbed us of each other. Read More