A 9-Year-Old Girl’s Search For Her Daddy

Helen Hensell
2 min readMay 12, 2022
Photo by Filippo Andolfatto on Unsplash

Gabriella was nine-years-old and riding the subway in the inner city of Detroit. She stood behind the solid yellow line, adhering to the unspoken rule not to cross. No one has ever told her that it was a rule, but through observations, she knew that it must be.

She stood there, hands tightly clenched in her thick pockets in the new wool jacket her momma got her for Christmas. She stood there…

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Helen Hensell

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