Helene Stapinski knew her father as a quiet man. If she had to count, she’d say that her father only spoke about 20 paragraphs to her in his whole life. Helene’s father died at age 59 (she was 22, then). Now, at age 54, she realizes that her father died young, with many things left unsaid.
We knew Daddy loved us, but not by his words...
Since her father did not talk that much, she did not really know who her father was, until her mother mentioned the love letters he wrote to her mother during his time in the Marine Corps. There Helene found a “verbose and expressive” teenager.
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