Unwritten

They say that time heals all wounds, but if there's something I've learned in the 17 years you've been gone, it's that it really isn't true. It seems like the older I get, the more I miss you... or maybe it's more accurate to say that I miss the idea of you. I don't remember enough to know what kind of father you would have been while I was growing up, but from what people say, I'm sure you would have been a great one! At every new stage in my life, there are things that you should have been here for, but you couldn't be. You should have been making your famous home movies at all of my birthday parties. You should have taught me to drive. Maybe then I could have learned to drive with my knees like you did sometimes! You should have been here for my first voice recital, my first play, my first band concert, my first cheerleading competition, my first choir concert, my first father-daughter dance. It should have been you moving me into my dorm and into...