My Dad Left Hawaii at 20 and Never Went Back – Then an Unexpected Package from His Past Made My Mother Go Pale

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I looked at Mom.

“Then why did you tell me to throw it away?”

Her face crumpled.

“Because he was supposed to sit in it.”

Neither of us spoke.

A delivery label was still stuck to the torn cardboard.

Below the shipping information was a contact number.

Hawaii.

I reached for my phone.

Mom saw what I was doing.

“Annie.”

“Someone there thinks Dad just got his chair back.”

Her eyes went to the number.

I dialed.

It rang four times.

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Then an older woman answered.