An open letter to my Aunt Amy

Dear Aunt Amy,

It’s been years since we’ve now spoken and honestly I will never understand why. The last time I saw you, I, had learned for the first time that you got married again. Actually I ended up attending your wedding. But what I didn’t know, is, that that would be the last time I would ever see you again.

I was shocked to learn that you had written me out of your life after I visited home the last time. Was it because I wanted to visit everybody? I didn’t abandon you, actually, I was trying to make time for everybody. Not just my ‘immediate family’. But for some reason, that, angered you and you literally exiled me from your very existence.

This open-letter isn’t an attempt to shame you. In fact, perhaps, it is the actual opposite. Regardless of what we’ve gone through, and, even the way you’ve done me for the past few years — I still have love for you; the step father I still don’t know, and of course my brother.

I’m fully aware that this is going to get back to you faster than I can write it — and that is okay. I don’t have any hard feelings for you, in fact, I just wish everybody could get along.