Hannah was turning 18, and her mother wanted the day to be perfect. But while opening her presents, Hannah found a strange card with a recent photo of herself.<\/p>\n
Inside, it said:<\/p>\n
\u201cHappy birthday, little sister. I promised I\u2019d be here.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Hannah\u2019s only brother, Luke, had di@ddd 13 years earlier after donating part of his liver to save her when she was five. His sacrifice had always been the greatest part of her story.<\/p>\n Then the doorbell rang.<\/p>\n Standing outside was Victor, Hannah\u2019s father, who had abandoned the family years ago. He revealed that Luke had found him before the surgery and asked him to give Hannah the card on her 18th birthday if anything happened to him.<\/p>\n Luke had also asked his father to take a recent photo of Hannah and make sure she knew that her brother was still with her.<\/p>\n Victor admitted that he had stayed away for years out of shame, but finally returned because he wanted to keep Luke\u2019s promise.<\/p>\n Hannah was overwhelmed. She couldn\u2019t forgive him immediately, but she told him, \u201cI can\u2019t promise you anything. But I\u2019ll listen.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n In the weeks that followed, Victor slowly began rebuilding a relationship with his daughter. Hannah kept Luke\u2019s card beside her bed.<\/p>\n Her mother looked at Luke\u2019s photograph and whispered, \u201cYou kept your promise, sweetheart. You were there, and you brought him back.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hannah was turning 18, and her mother wanted the day to be perfect. But while opening her presents, Hannah found a strange card with a recent photo of herself. Inside, it said: \u201cHappy birthday, little sister. I promised I\u2019d be here.\u201d Hannah\u2019s only brother, Luke, had di@ddd 13 years earlier after donating part of his …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10850,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847\/revisions\/10850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}