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- = F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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- An Old Debt
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- I am a wanted man. Not in the sense that anyone really wants me, of
- course. I have a few friends who wish me to be around me, but this is
- not to what I am referring. In this meaning of the term, I am wanted by
- the United States government for past misdeeds which it holds against
- me.
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- Most, if not all, of the government employees responsible for marking me
- as a wanted man have moved on to other job assignments and new lives. I
- doubt any of them would recognize me if they ran into me on the street.
- Nevertheless, the paperwork remains.
-
- I have lived these past 15 years in peace. During this time, I have
- lived in a country that is not my own under a name that is not my own.
- These have been prosperous years. My education in the United States and
- my business skills have served me well.
-
- I am now returning to the United States. This is my first visit to my
- own country since 1981. Although I miss my home greatly, that is not
- the reason for my return. My return to America, at great personal risk,
- is an attempt to partially repay a past debt.
-
- Fifteen years ago, my partner and I were involved in some shady business
- dealings. Hell, it was outright crime. We took CitiBank for over a
- million dollars, and we got caught. They took John, but I got away. I
- got away because I ran fast and I ran far. I had no one and nothing to
- hold me back. Before they noticed my absence, I was out of the country
- and travelling under a false identity. It cost me quite a bit of money,
- but CitiBank was footing the bill.
-
- John wasn't so lucky. John couldn't run. John wouldn't run. John had
- a daughter. John loved that little girl more than I've ever loved
- anything in my entire life. John loved that little girl more than I
- have loved everything I have ever loved all put together. John lived
- for that little girl. John stayed put. John stood trial. John stood
- trial for his crimes and for mine.
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- John was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive 20 year sentences.
- John couldn't take it. John was never strong that way. Perhaps he
- simply couldn't stand to be apart from his daughter for that long. John
- killed himself in prison.
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- John could have taken better care of his daughter had he lived. He
- should have known that. John just couldn't have been thinking that when
- he kicked that chair out from underneath himself. It was less than a
- year into his sentence.
-
- The little girl was raised by her mother and John never once had custody.
- Her mother left John before the girl was ever born. John would see the
- child only on weekends. She was all he ever talked about. She was his
- life, and when he lost her, he just stopped living.
-
- The little girl's mother wasn't the best of people. John had loved her.
- John didn't love her anymore. She burned out that love in ways only a
- woman can. I never did understand why she did what she did, and neither
- did John.
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- I haven't been a father to the little girl. I've been living in hiding.
- The little girl's mother does not approve of me, and she has little
- reason to. I was part of what John killed. She was a part too,
- although she will never know that.
-
- I hope she has raised the child well, but I have no reason to believe
- that to be the case. She was never fit to raise a child, but she was
- the only one who was allowed to. Some kids grow up right in spite of
- their parents. I only hope this is one of those kids.
-
- I've come to America to see this little girl. Only she's not so little
- anymore. She's seventeen and she's in high school. It's in school that
- I will meet her. Well, not in school exactly. I can't risk being
- identified in her school. I can't risk being identified by her mother.
- Nevertheless, I must risk this journey to see the girl.
-
- My salvation is, as has often been the case, an old friend. I have a
- friend who is a doctor and who is a female. You see, no seventeen year
- old girl in her right mind would allow herself to be approached by a
- lone adult man. My good friend will be there though. She will be
- my ticket to safely speak with John's daughter. Using a simple pretext,
- my friend will arrange for me to meet the girl.
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- As soon as we are together, I will come clean. My freedom depends on
- the girl trusting me enough not to scream out. I do not know the girl,
- but I knew the father. I have enough faith in the blood to risk what I
- am risking.
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- I do not come to bring the girl money. I do not owe John or his
- daughter any money. I have plenty of money, and I would give it all to
- John's daughter, or anything she needs just as if she were my own daughter.
- But money is not the purpose of my visit. Money is base and dirty and
- money is part of what caused the death of her father.
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- I come with a message for the little girl. I come to tell her about her
- father. I come to tell her about his wit, his sensitivity, his love of
- life and his wonderful sense of humor. Most importantly I come to tell
- her about how much he loved her.
-
- I don't know what the girl's mother told her about John, but I'm certain
- he would have wanted her to know the truth. Her mother was never strong
- on the truth, in fact, I bet she even lies to herself. The little girl
- deserves to know what kind of a man her father really was and how much
- he loved her. If her mother was never able to love her and if no one else
- in her life ever loves her, her father loved her, and she deserves to know
- that.
-
- I am an old man. I am risking the last years of my life to tell a
- seventeen year old girl how her dead father felt about her. Is it worth
- it? You bet your ass it is.
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- *** A work of fiction by the Voyager.
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