XApril 18, 2002
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c/o Christine E. Smith
P.O.Box XXXXX
Chesapeake, VA 23323
My Dearest Son,
This is the first on many letters that I will write to you over the course of your life. I know that you will not be able to read this letter yourself. I hope that your mother will read you this letter. I sure she only want the best for you, so do I. Since you are now seven years old. I feel its time for you to get know your father. I hope in time we will be able to see each other on a regular basis.
If I’m correct you are now in first grade. So how are you doing in school? I hear that you love it a lot. I also been told that you love Barney and collecting matchbox cars, that you have a Pepsi truck and a Coke truck and that your mother is/was hoping to get another truck, one like your grandfather drives.
So how is Missy doing, I sure you two are having great fun. How big is missy now, is she full-grown yet. What type of trick can she do now?
I know that you will have questions upon questions that will need to be answer. I will do my very best to answer any and all questions that you may have. I was there the day you push yourself into this world, I will be there for you when ever you need me to be.
Yes your mother and I aren’t together any more, that doesn’t mean that we don’t love you. It just means that your mother and I had problems that we just couldn’t work out. I won’t go into detail about these problems now since you are so young that you won’t be able to understand them. In time if you wish to know what these problems are, all you have to do is just ask.
I see that you are growing into a great looking kid, with the bright red hair of yours. I glad to see that you slim, and very active. I wonder what types of games you like to play.
I understand that you had a great time with your grandfather XXXXX, when his wife and him came for a visit a few years ago. It seem that you had a great time on the ferry.
In my life I do have a lot of regrets, having you for a son is not one of them.
I regret the following most of all:
1. Not being there to see you grow up in your early years.
2. Watching you grow up in photographs
3. Not being able to take you places
4. Not being able to see you on your first day of school.
In my mind’s eye I know that you have been well taking care of. I sure that you don’t have many need or wants.
Talking about those pictures, I must say that you appear to be very ecstatic. I have your very first set of pictures that were taken two week after you were born. You looked very happy while riding your horse. Sleeping in your grandmother rocker chair with your Elmo doll. I personally enjoy the one with you hugging Winnie the Pooh, also the ones of you sitting at the table eating a block of cheese, with that wide grin of yours.
I do cherish those visits that we with each other at the family playroom at the Chesapeake J&D court in Chesapeake. I remember bring you some small toys once. I guess your mother forgot to pick them up when she pick you up. I say this cause on the next visit I had with you those same toys when in the toy box. Maybe your mother didn’t know that I brought them for you and thought that they belong the Playroom.
I will close for now; remember that your father loves you very much. I hope to have a great father son relationship with you.
Your Father,
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