Lost Story Found in a Cheap Shoes Shoebox

A story lost for so long no one knew it had been lost. Accidentally found buried under a pile of other old nearly forgotten memories in the bottom of a tattered shoebox. A shoebox for cheap shoes that had been stuffed high up on the topmost closet shelf for so many years that no one remembered putting it there. A cheap shoes shoebox that suddenly became a precious treasure chest holding whispers from the past, moldering in the darkness of the rarely used closet. Whispers of things and people once loved and cherished that had been relegated to the cheap shoes shoebox crammed in between musty blankets on the top shelf of the closet in a spare room. Whispers liberated as the crushed lid of the cheap shoes shoebox was lifted and the light of discovery illuminated the jumbled contents. Pictures, crumpled notes, silly momentos and sundry junk that must have been valued by someone somewhen. And at the very bottom of it all, the folded yellowing sheets of the story lost so long ago. The story of a man who no longer drew breath but still lived in the heart of the finder of the cheap shoes shoebox of whispered memories. The finder became the reader and relived the words of the writer and read about a man... her father... she thought she knew and discovered a part of him she never suspected or experienced. The reader tasted the salty flavor of the warm tears of mourning she didn't realize were flowing and held the lost story to her breast. Grateful for the opportunity to breath life into her father again through the words of a lost story found in the bottom of a cheap shoes shoebox long forgotten till then and written by me twenty-five years ago.

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