{"id":39215,"date":"2015-06-30T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=39215"},"modified":"2017-10-24T14:22:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T21:22:05","slug":"ice-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/ice-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m the Ice Queen now, and you’ll never see me again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is the second letter in the series, \u201cLetters To Dad<\/a>.\u201d They are written by Sam Riviera, and are based on the true stories of people he actually knows in real life. This letter is from a woman named Amy, who is now an adult (Amy is not her real name).<\/p>\n

In case you do not know, \u201cBoosting\u201d means stealing. \u201cDoing me\u201d means molesting her. \u201cIce\u201d is meth. \u201cIce Queen\u201d means she is sexually frigid and can never have a sexual relationship with a man. She is not a lesbian. \u201cIce Queen\u201d also means she is doing well enough stealing to buy all the ice she wants.<\/p>\n

\"meth<\/p>\n

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Dad,<\/p>\n

You are probably hoping I\u2019m dead, but I\u2019m not. Ignore the postmark on the envelope. Wherever it says, it\u2019s not where I am. A friend on a cross-country trip promised to mail this letter several states away from me. The most I\u2019ll tell you is that I\u2019m nowhere close to you and it\u2019s going to stay that way. Permanently.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, I have a new name and identity. Once I got a birth certificate with a new name, the rest was easy. So don\u2019t bother looking for me. I don\u2019t exist anymore, at least not by the name you know. Even if you could somehow find me, you won\u2019t do it before I turn eighteen. Then you can\u2019t ever make me do anything I don\u2019t want to. Never again.<\/p>\n

The money I had saved ran out a few weeks after I took off. Then I hooked up with a couple of people on the road. They\u2019ve taught me how to survive. We\u2019re luckier than most. We don\u2019t have to sell ourselves to dirty, perverted old men. We rip \u2018em off. Boosting is the name of the game.<\/p>\n

You gave me an education too. That\u2019s what you called it, right? How stupid did you think I was even when I was little? I didn\u2019t need your brand of education.<\/p>\n

\u201cReadin\u2019, writin\u2019, and \u2018rithmatic.
\nTaught to the tune of a hickory stick.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

You thought I wouldn\u2019t remember what you sang when you were doing me when I was eight? I remember. Every stinking detail.<\/p>\n

Are you doing the same stuff to my sisters? Maybe your sheriff will be getting an anonymous letter one of these days tipping him off. Maybe the neighbors and the church people will be getting some anonymous letters too. It would serve you right.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not asking for an apology. Never will. You\u2019re not capable. I wouldn\u2019t believe you if you apologized. You wouldn\u2019t mean it. No matter how many times you said you\u2019re sorry it wouldn\u2019t make any difference.<\/p>\n

But you\u2019re not sorry, are you?<\/p>\n

I still wonder though … Why did mom think you took me out to your workshop in the garage several times a week? How could she not know what was going on? She was afraid of you, wasn\u2019t she? That\u2019s why she never came out to the garage.<\/p>\n

\"runawayWhatever. You\u2019ll never see me again. You\u2019ll never know my name. You\u2019ll never know where I am or what I\u2019m doing. But you should always be looking over your shoulder. Maybe that car door closing out front is the sheriff getting out of his car to come get you because I\u2019ve decided to testify against you.<\/p>\n

Maybe, just maybe, I keep in touch with someone who\u2019s keeping an eye on you. If I ever, ever hear you\u2019ve been touching my sisters or any other kid you can bet your ass you\u2019ll see me again. On the witness stand at your trial.<\/p>\n

In the meantime I\u2019ve moved on. I\u2019m doing just fine, thank you. I\u2019d be doing just fine living under a bridge so long as it was nowhere close to you.<\/p>\n

Keep yourself out of prison, old man.<\/p>\n

The Ice Queen, formerly known as Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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