Daughter(s) with Absent Fathers

is a short book of letters a man on a train is regularly sending to his daughter he rediscovered. They reintroduced themselves after she became an adult.

They met by accident. He was simply trying to stop a young man from yelling and pulling on his girlfriend out in public. The man had finished yanking her and her child out the car by the time he approached them. Papers fell out. Her purse fell out.

Now the couple was looking at an interferer. That is, until they saw his eyes. It was then and there they came to realize it was that woman's father. Suddenly this young man had the door opened for her and her child to get back in. Her eyes never left her father's. Her body was helped back into the car. Next he had thrown her purse into her laps. Then he got in and they were gone.

Embarrassment in the public caused this father to look down. Eighteen years had flashed by with repeats of horrors, screeches and pain since he last saw this sight. Except then it were she, he, her mother and her new boyfriend. Now this time around, on the ground, were envelopes. There lay an address that, for him, spelled change on the horizon.

From those papers came one letter with his daughter's name and address. He thought a contact. He thought to keep it a secret from her boyfriend. How does one keep secret letters from him, he thought. Thus you have in this book those letters. Letters of advice about dealing with relationships in this book called Daughter(s) with Absent Fathers.