Begging Letters
Published Feb 13, 2003
A college student wrote a letter home:
"Dear folks,
I feel miserable because I have to keep writing for money. I feel ashamed and unhappy. I have to ask for another hundred, but every cell in my body rebels. I beg on bended knee that you forgive me.
Your son,
Marvin.
P.S. I felt so terrible, I ran after the mailman who picked this up in the box at the corner. I wanted to take this letter and burn it. I prayed that I could get it back. But it was too late."
A few days later he received a letter from his father.
It said, "Your prayers were answered. Your letter never came!"
Originally published February 14, 2003.
