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A Thank You Letter To My Parents

I can't never thank you enough.

Margaret Torresson
Jun 27, 2016
Mount Saint Mary College
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A Thank You Letter To My Parents
Margaret Torresson

Dear Mom and Dad,

Where does one begin? There are so many things to say. I think that the biggest thing and most important thing that I want to say is, thank you. Thank you for every opportunity you have given me, thank you for being my first teachers, thank you for teaching me how to love, thank for teaching me how to respect not only others but myself as well, and thank you for raising me the way you did.

I'd like to think that I have become a decent human being and that I have a good head on my shoulders and as cliche as it sounds, if it wasn't for you, I would not be the person I am today.

I could say thank you until I was blue in the face and it would still not be enough in my opinion for all that you have done for me. There are no words to describe how thankful I truly am for all that you do.

The more that I sit and reflect on myself and look at where I am in my life, I realize that I am slowly becoming like the both of you. I see parts of me that are my mom, like the parts of me that want to be everyone's friend, but then I see parts of me that are my dad, like the parts of me that don't really care if you like me or not.

If you said me a few years ago that I was going to turn into you guys, I would have shudder at the thought. Teenage/ high school me thought that you guys were the weirdest people ever. But almost 21, going into senior year of college me, thinks that you guys are amazing and is proud to be like you. If I am even close to half as great of a person as you both are, I'd be alright with that, and I hope that you guys would be too.

I cannot even fathom, what it would have been like to have been raised by anyone else. I know that, with my back, with out you both, I would not have had the strength to get out of bed after surgery. I would not have wanted to fight the pain that I was in and the pain that I am still in everyday. You guys turned me into a stronger, determined, independent, fighter. Thank you for pushing me even though the whole time I was screaming my head off.

OK so I don't even want to count the amount of times that I said thank you in this letter, but as I said, I cannot say it enough. I love you guys beyond words. Thank you for giving me the world.

Love, Margaret Rose

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