At 3 a.m., seventeen missed calls and a desperate text jolted me awake: \u201cDad, help! Come fast!\u201d I rushed to my daughter\u2019s house, but she hadn\u2019t contacted me. When she saw the number, her face went pale. \u201cDad\u2026 that\u2019s Helen\u2019s number.\u201d<\/p>\n
Helen, my youngest daughter, had died in a car accident a year earlier. Before I could process it, another message arrived: \u201cI am still waiting. Where are you?\u201d<\/p>\n
With trembling hands, I called. A young woman answered, crying because her car had broken down. She was trying to reach her father through an old saved number, and her desperate calls had reached me.<\/p>\n
I stayed on the line until help arrived, then cried in my car until sunrise. For a few fleeting moments, those unexpected calls had made me feel close to Helen again.<\/p>\n
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