Dear So and So

[Roadtrip]

Dear "Cousin",

I know he may mean more to you, as you were and remain related to the man who was once my step father... but I will not shed a tear at learning this man has passed on. I do wish you personally all the best in your grief, I just wish you knew what this man did, and why I cannot shed a single tear knowing he's gone.

This is the same man who beat both my mother and I, for no other reason but my failure To do housework less then a week after coming home from major surgery. Fact is, that very night, I saved your life as mother loaded the gun and you lay passed out in a stuppor. Purely for selfish reasons, I must admit as I didn't want to loose her to a prison cell, but none the less it bought you another twenty some odd years on this earth.

Time has healed many wounds and I guess knowing you can now never treat anyone else like you treated our family is something I didn't know I'd feel so strongly about.