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A painful demise
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2024-11-03 09:56:16Author's POV
James Caldwell watched his only daughter walk out of the room without so much as a glance over her shoulder. In his hands were the pieces of his beloved picture of them.
The one picture he had held on to for twenty-two years. He was on his knees, the carpet burned through his pants, eating at his aching and weary skin. A tear slid down the older man's cheek, and then others followed.
"Camille!" He yelled, perhaps as a last-ditch effort to stop his daughter from making what he thought was a mistake.
He was her father, for goodness sake. He knew better.
But his dear daughter would not listen. She never did. When her mother died years ago, leaving him with Camille, a guru in every technology but not in kids, He had hoped and prayed for an easy journey.
But things were never easy when it came to Cam
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