Dear mom

I'm sorry that I haven't written in a while, but I have been really busy at the hospital. Someday I'm going to take you on a tour here. Are you feeling better? I hope so, I feel so bad for leaving you in that home. But I promise it will be only a little while longer, until I get enough money. Then I will come and pick you up.
I'm sorry that I couldn't defend you better, I should have managed to stop him, before he managed to harm you like that, paralysed from the neck and beneath. I'm sorry mum.
I know you told me to always be myself, but I just can't. I'm a completely different person at work, cold, cool, sloppy and uncaring. I want to show them who I really are, but I'm to afraid.
I'll better be going, I don't want to be late for work.

Love, Dave

He licked the stamp and pushed the letter into the mailbox.