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Night (KL)  Short story By: Keith LaFountaine  A teen goes to
see his his father who is awaiting the death penalty.
Submitted:Jan 28, 2013    Reads: 30    Comments: 0    Likes: 0
   There is nothing like losing a parent. If you have
experienced a death of any kind, you understand the horror and
pain that comes with it. But the death of a parent, that's the
worst kind of death, aside from the death of a child. The worst
part, for me that is, is realizing I never really knew my mother
at all. My mother is the one who had died, not my father. My dad
was in jail. He was arrested last year for drug possession and
murder. He was hooked on a lot of things. The big one was meth,
but he also did heroin, coke, and occasionally popped
prescription pills. It was hard, especially as a teenager, to
see my dad go through all of this. I think deep down he didn't
want the drugs, but he felt he needed them. I think if he had
enough willpower he could have gotte