Why Did My Son Go?

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I loved my wife.” George cried to himself. When we lost our only son, I did everything in my power to make her happy. Liam was only five years old when he was kidnapped.” In a land not too far away, there was a man named George. He lived with his wife, Victoria, and with his son, Liam. Not too long ago, their lives had tumbled down to a crashing point. They were very poor, and no matter how hard the family worked, they were never able to provide enough. George constantly had a lump of guilt in his heart. “What wrong have I done? Why did my son go? Why did they take my son’s life?” he said to himself as his heart was pumping out of his chest. His wife Victoria had never blamed him, though, for anything. However, he too could see that she was being hurt inside as well. …show more content…

George headed back home to gather his things. He was digging through his desk drawers to find the money he had stashed years ago in case of an emergency. That’s when he found the leather-bound journal. He totally didn’t know who it belonged to how it got there so he decided to open it and saw his wife’s name written on the very first page. George immediately closed it and put the leather journal back because he didn't want to waste any time, then he noticed that a small note had fallen out of it. The note had the name “Lilith Simon”. George practically knew everyone in the village and he was certain that this Lilith person wasn’t from around here. He carefully turned the note around and saw a map drawn that lead to a small village about an hour away from the village that he was at and the note had the present day's date: May 27th, 1964. He had surely never been there, and George only heard stories about the people that lived there. Most of the stories were exaggerated, that he knew of, but he couldn’t help feeling a sense that his wife Victoria may be there. He had to find out who Lilith was, and why Victoria had directions to her

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