Hello, father. It's me, Mackenzie. How are you? How's everyone?

As Mackenzie hit the send button, tears rolled down her cheeks.

This was the first message she ever sent to her father in a while that did not involve her informing him that she'd wired some money to his bank account.

Now that she thought about it, she realized that was vain and all the efforts she was putting into helping her father was just a heap of heavy dust. What was money going to do for her now? It ...