My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
He said she was sleeping. They knew she was dead. He asked that they believe what wasn't there, to see beyond what they knew, but they could not do it. Could they understand after he had raised her to life? Or did the mystery just get deeper?
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