The food and drink you consume gets processed into glucose. Glucose is the primary energy source your body uses. When your glucose runs out, your body shifts its energy source to mostly fat and some muscle. When the fat runs out, your body shifts its focus entirely on muscle, and at some point, you die.…

This was an unsent “letter” my dad wrote to a family he met in a village in Vietnam.  I edited some punctuation to make it clearer and tried to add paragraph breaks where appropriate. To the people of Vietnam whom I came to call friends, I feel a deep loss ever since I was forced…