How I Met My Dead Parents

The writer gains a new perspective on who her parents were after examining old photos and letters they left behind after they died:

“As I worked on my blog, I read these and similar letters again and again, and wondered how the man I thought my father was could have written these words, words that are so romantic that I melt on my mother’s behalf when I read them. How could my father have been the person that I knew, the person I was happy to have dead, and the person in these letters, a person who was articulate, generous, and so, so loving? And how could my mother, who never seemed very happy with him, love him so much in return? Didn’t she know he was a monster?”

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Apr 18, 2013
Length: 26 minutes (6,740 words)