The Things we never Became - Part 4

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The Thing We Never Became ByPrachi GurjarPART IVLETTERS NEVER SENTCHAPTER 20DEAR PAPAIt was Dr. Bose who suggested the letters, though she had not called them that exactly. She had asked, near the end of a session in early August, whether there were things Anaya had never said to the people closest to her, things that sat unspoken in her chest the way water sits behind a dam, present and pressing but never released."There are some things," Anaya had admitted. "Things I don't think I could ever actually say out loud. To Papa especially. We don't talk like that. We never have.""You