Letter Seventeen

Hi dad

School's getting hard these days. I have officially become the 'sick girl' or 'the girl with a weak heart' at school. Some students tease me when they see me having my medicines. On the days when mom comes to school early to take me to the hospital for checkups, people look at me with pity. They take me as someone who is fragile and won't get to live a normal life like others. There are some people who are nice to me, but their numbers are much less. It's getting hard for me to go to school every day and bear all this. I tried talking to mom about it, but she said I needed to ignore those people and live my life. But honestly, I can't go on like that. At first, it was the daughter whose father left, and now it's just the daughter who turned out to be sick. I just want to go back to normal where my heart wasn't weak, and you were here back at home. The only you left were for the business meetings. Wish I could turn it all around.