David Miller's Home: A Short Story

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They were like any other family. The Miller Family had just bought a new 1.5 million dollar home in New Jersey; it was their dream home.
David Miller was a surgeon at the Saint Barnabas Medical Center, his wife Mindy was a stay at home mom and they had one twelve-year-old boy named Thomas.
Every day the Millers had the same routine: David woke up early and prepared breakfast for the family, eggs and ham for Thomas and oatmeal for his beloved wife. They discussed family matters over breakfast and after they finished breakfast, Mr. Miller would make his way to work. Once Thomas was ready at eight o’clock sharp, his mother would drive him to school for him to be there at half past eight.
Mindy would make her way back home and continue her day with house chores.
As Thomas’s school day would come to an end he would embark on the school bus heading home. Luckily for David,
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They both sat at the table and took a look at all the letters they had gotten. They decided to head to the police station where they filed a report. To their surprise, the police officer didn’t seem to surprised with the letters. Mindy thought to herself, he had probably seen empty threats like these, which reassured her for a moment. Later on she found herself worried again and for many days she kept on going back and forth in her thoughts and feelings between fear and a sense of safety.
A month passed by. It was the worst month of their life, not knowing who was watching them and why. Whether by coincidence or not, they hadn’t received any further letters. One rainy afternoon a police officer rang at their door, and notified the couple that they had found a suspect whom they kept in detention. A huge weight was taken off the couple’s shoulders, as they found out this news.
For the first time in a while, they felt like they could move freely in their own

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