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Who knew someone so close to you could be so distant? Who knew that a ten-year old could interpret such a catastrophic event. It all started on November 13th 2007.. on this day, my father and I moved to the U.K. from Florida. We were going to be living in a community home in the heart of England. I didn’t know what to think, new home, new friends, new school, new country, everything was new. My father and I unpacked our bags from our old, beat up Cherokee and carried them into our humble abode for the next few months. The room was small, I of course expected rainbows and butterflies but that’s just the mind of a ten-year old adolescent. I began to unpack my clothes- basically a plethora of pink, purple & anything neon. But that’s not the point, that was then and this was now. …show more content…

he was pale, tall, and usually wore a sport related t-shirt and old blue jeans. I remember his caring bluey grey eyes would comfort me when I was sad and brighten my day, he was always my best friend. On November 17th I woke up abruptly, I watched father rummage through the desk drawers. He pulled out a small flashlight and at 12:00 sharp and left our room. I don’t know where he had gone that night but for the next six nights he had repeated the process, on the seventh night I got up as well. I trotted to his desk; the mass of all his secrets, I found six letters.. one from each night. Each letter talked about a “vulture eye”, I had no clue what my father was talking about so I went back to the very first letter and tried to make out all the adult vocabulary but some words I couldn’t quite understand. The letter

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