Texting your dad after you find a draft Father’s Day spee...

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1. I found a file on your laptop titled 'To the son I kept secret'.
2. What file? I don't write things like that.
3. It's on your desktop, 'draft_final.docx,' saved last Monday.
4. You went through my computer?
5. Your screen was unlocked; the title froze me, so yes.
6. Don't read other people's stuff.
7. Then explain the line 'He called me papa from across a playground'.
8. That isn't about you.
9. It mentions hospital room 417, July 12, 1999, and a birth certificate.
10. I can't talk about that right now.
11. You titled it 'to the son I kept secret'—so who is he?
12. I kept a promise to someone once.
13. Whose promise? who were you protecting by lying to me?
14. Her name was Mira; she begged me to disappear.
15. Mira? you never said that name in twenty-seven years.