Mystery & Secrets

For Twelve Years My Aunt Told Me My Mother Abandoned Me, Until I Found The 400 Unopened Letters She'd Hidden In Her Attic With My Name On Every One.

I was seven when my mother "left." I was nineteen when I climbed into my aunt's attic to clear it out and found four storage totes packed with envelopes in my mother's handwriting — four hundred of them, every single one addressed to me, and not one of them opened.