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Your three words today are:
SORRY
HUMBLE
APOLOGY
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Apology
By Tessa Dean May 2024
Mia stared at the door, undecided. Should she offer an apology to the occupant or leave things alone? She was sorry in her own way, but never felt a need to humble herself and apologize before.
She knocked on the door, trembling, waiting for an answer. She hoped they weren’t home. One hand held a stack of mail.
There was no answer at first so she turned to leave. The door opened and the woman had been crying. Mia felt awful. Was it because of her? Probably.
She had stolen the mail hoping for cash to be in one of their envelopes. She knew they got a lot of mail everday as she was the one who put it in their mailbox. Instead of delivering it she collected the mail and put it aside to look at later.
As she went through the mail she found, much to her chagrin, an envelope from the woman’s mother telling her that her father had passed away and giving her the information as to where the burial would be and when. She realized while reading it that the date was in the past and if no one had contacted her she wouldn’t have gone to the funeral and that would be Mia’s fault.
As she looked at the crying woman she found she wasn’t brave enough to give her the mail back even though her mother had written her a long letter about her father. She put the mail behind her back and told her she had the wrong house and she was sorry about that.
She would take the letter and put it in an envelope and mail it anonomously to her so she would have it even though she probably missed the funeral and had just been told about it by someone, hence the crying when she answered the door.
As bad as Mia felt she knew that she wouldn’t stop going through people’s mail. She would never get rich this way, but she picked up some money now and then from some of the people on her route. Most people knew better than to mail cash, but some still did it and she figured they wouldn’t miss it as they probably weren’t expecting it.
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Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com
Author – Old Writing – http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com
About my life – http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com
Tessa Dean - Author 
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