"More than a stunning debut. It is the announcement of a bold new literary voice"
—Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Next year it will be 10 years since you have been gone, So much has happened. After you passed mom stopped paying the rent and didn’t tell anyone about it, so the cops came and removed all 4 of us and all four cats from the house. Our belongings were on the street and I could only find temporary homes for 2 of the cats so the other two went to a shelter, As if losing you wasn’t hard enough. Scott and I moved by Shannon in fox lake. We weren’t there long. While I was there a co worker of mine gave me Heroin for the first time, it made me sick and I wasn’t sure about it, but I’d end up going back to it. When mom didn’t enroll Will in school the year after you passed, I ended up having Mom sign custody of will over to me so that I could make sure will had a stable place to make it thru High school. You guys had him out of school for 6 years at that point I felt any longer and he would have been crippled. After you passed she completely went off the deep end. She home less for a little while and the she was always with different guys and doing her own thing. Will went to Hamilton and met this amazing Girl brittany. They’ve been together since 2016. I started going to beauty school and went bu Erica’s one day to do her hair and she gave me some heroin. I liked it this time and I didn’t know it right away, but I ended up getting addicted. I let heroin turn me into someone i was disgusted with and I had enough and moved up north in 2017. Shannon got me a job at the gas station she worked at and I stayed with her and got off of the drugs all by myself. No one knew about it because when I initially came clean anout doing the drugs everyone thought i had gotten off of them in 2015 which wasnt the case. When we moved up north Will stayed with Britt’s family and he ended up graduating in 2019. HE GRADUATED DAD! I wasn’t there to see it which kills me but he did it! He has has a better work ethic than I ever have and I know you’d be so proud of the man he is today and how far he has come. Victoria had a baby boy name legacy, youre a Great Grandpa, Dad. It had become very evident Scott didn’t want to have a child with me and it made me very resentful. When Amanda had olivia I cried and when Vicky had legacy something in me broke. Shortly after vic had her son we found out mom had Skin cancer. To make a long story short Scott and i got custody of Nathan because Erica would remain a slave to the drugs until she died in 2020, and we moved to Oshkosh in February 2021. In march mom remarried and the day before I went to milwaukee to play magic to hang out with will and his friends. Scott got pissed off and ended up accusing me of sleeping with all of wills friends to guilt trip me into not going around them any more. Between taking mom to cancer treatments and hanging out with will and his friends when I could, He kept trying to make me feel bad for going and for not being around and I just had it. I decided to choose my own happiness. I was nothing more than the little extra income and cook / maid at that point. I left him in may of 2022 I started staying with mom. Will started working at Binary and I would go there to hang out alot. On July 21st 2022 will had his first ever magic event. It was there that I met Ian. Dad, you would absolutely love this man. He treats me better than I’d ever imagined i could be treated. He has a 7 year old daughter who started calling me step mom shortly after we got together. We got engaged one year to the day that we met. I asked him to marry me with a magic card. We found out VERY shortly after that I’m going to have a baby, Dad. I have been Heroin free since October 17th 2017, cocaine free for a little longer than that, I have been nicotine free for at least 5 months now and alcohol and Thc free for a bout two months. I hope you’re proud of us Dad. I wish you weren’t going to be stories to my kids. I’m so sorry for the person I was when you passed away and for running from your Cancer with Scott. I will keep your memory alive every day and miss you dearly until we meet again. I love you Daddio