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Love Story: “My Last Christmas Present”

By: Melissa

My father went to prison in 2001. My father then died in prison on Christmas Eve of 2006....

December 28th,2006 started out by me waking up and getting ready to head to the visitation at the funeral home. I arrived at the funeral home and the whole day had seemed like a blur. I woman came up to me and said, "Hi my name is Cathy, my son Zac was locked up with your father and we are terribly sorry for your loss." She then preceded to tell me that her son was going to try to make it to the funeral home that night.
My dad would always write me about this young man named Zac that he was locked up with and he always talked wonderful things about him. I know people look down on others ecspecially convicts. But Zac wasnt guilty he took the wrap for a family member so they would not get in trouble because they had a baby on the way.
That night at the funeral home I was standing by my fathers casket when a man walked into the room. I looked at my cousins and asked if they knew who he was and they said no. So I replied with "well he must not be family"
The handsome man approached me and smiled and said "you must be Melissa, your father said youd never leave his side" and i said"yes I am Melissa who are you" and he introduced himself.
We continued talking until the end of the visitation. The next day as the funeral was getting ready to start i had a really bad breakdown. I had just lost my best friend, my hero, my father. Right as I was breaking downZac ran up to me and grabbed me and held me tight. He sat with me through out the funeral, and then afterwards came to my familys house.
Three weeks after my father died I recieved a card in the mail from my father that another inmate had found and mailed to my grandmothers address inside the card read "My darling little girl, i know i have been away from you for far to long and I will continue to be away from you for the rest of your life, I have sent you your last Christmas gift and I hope you enjoy it because he will be what gets you through what you are about to go through I love you and just know that i will go to a better place"
My father knew that he was going to die in prison and he knew that I would feel like i had no one and he sent Zac to me. He always told Zac how he hated what my ex husband who i married and was only with for four days due to him beating me after we were married, did to me and how he hoped i would find a man like Zac.
Needless to say it is now 2008 and Zac and i are living happily ever after with a beautiful daughter and we have a beautiful family. My last Christmas present from my dad was a man that he knew would love me and that i would love and a man that would protect me from everything, my father sent me a guardian angel in him!