After spending three years behind bars, I returned home only to discover my father was gone and my stepmother had taken over his house. “He was buried a year ago,” she said coldly. “Now get off my property.” Then she shut the door in my face. I ran to the cemetery, desperate to find his grave, but the old groundskeeper looked at me with pity.

His stepmother, Linda, opened the door. Doors& Windows

“Where’s Dad?” Eli asked.

Linda looked at him coldly.

“Your father was buried a year ago.”

Eli was stunned. No one had told him. Linda refused to let him inside and shut the door in his face. Doors& Windows

Desperate for answers, Eli went to Oak Hill Cemetery. But the groundskeeper, Harold, told him his father was not buried there.

Then Harold handed him an envelope.

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