In the fall of 1981, my wife and I were finally living the life we had worked nearly fifteen years to build.
We had two grown children.
A steady income.
And a small house in western Ohio that finally belonged to us.
For the first time in years, everything seemed to be going right.
Then someone started trying to destroy it.
It began at work.
An anonymous accusation was made against me.
I was investigated.
Nothing was found.
But the damage to my reputation had already begun.
A few weeks later, my wife received a strange letter.
No return address.
No signature.
Just one sentence.
Ask your husband why he really stays late after work.
Then another letter arrived.
He isn't the man you think he is.
I had no idea who was sending them.
Or why someone wanted my wife to stop trusting me.
Then one afternoon, we returned home and discovered something missing.
Not money.
Not jewelry.
Not anything valuable.
Our family photograph.
It had been taken the previous Christmas.
My wife.
Our daughter.
Our son.
And me.
A week later, someone returned the photograph.
It was inside our mailbox.
No envelope.
No explanation.
But someone had carefully cut one person out of it.
Me.
My wife and children were still there.
Only I was missing.
That was when I realized someone wasn't simply trying to frighten me.
Someone was imagining my family without me in it.
And as more strange things began happening at work and inside our home, I started to understand something even more frightening.
Whoever was responsible knew our routines.
Our personal lives.
Our house.
And the people closest to us.
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I just never imagined how close that person really was.
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