Therapeutic Letter to My Dad by MandyB82, literature
Literature
Therapeutic Letter to My Dad
CW & TW: Intentional Weight Loss, WLS, general unpleasantness...
I will probably never show this letter to you, because I know it would hurt you. Unlike you, I don’t want to hurt one of the people I love the most in this world. I’m not entirely sure you ever wanted to hurt me either, but the words you’ve said to me in the past and present certainly did and do and still hurt. I keep wondering if writing this will do any good, but I need to get this out on paper because I keep thinking about it and it keeps hurting me. If you ever see this, I hope you understand why I needed to get this out.
I remember the first tim
I remember you having me listen to a song when I was ten or eleven.
It was "I Love the Dead" by Alice Cooper.
This was long before I learned to love horror,
and the song horrified me.
I remember you showing me Eric Clapton's Blind Faith album cover.
I was too sheltered to appreciate the art.
The sight of boobs sickened me.
I couldn't finish the chicken noodle soup you made for me.
I just now listened to the song again, because I remembered part of it, even though I hadn't heard it in so long. That's how much of an impact it had on me.
I like it now. I wish I hadn't been too sheltered to like it then.
I just now looked up the Blind