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No Kiss Goodbye: What I Never Got to Say
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some goodbyes happen long before we realize they are the last.
When Trevor and Trish travel to a remote cabin in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, they expect a weekend of cleaning, repairs, and difficult decisions about their failing marriage.
Instead, they discover a spectacular greenhouse hidden behind the cabin-and an old military footlocker containing a sealed letter that was never mailed.
As Trish reads the letter aloud, the voice of Thomas Joseph Hayes fills the greenhouse: a former soldier, a young father, and a man struggling to explain how duty, fear, and silence cost him the daughter he never stopped loving.
His confession forces Trevor and Trish to confront the distance that has grown between them-and the dangerous belief that there will always be another conversation, another visit, and another chance to say what matters.
No Kiss Goodbye is an intimate and emotionally resonant story about parenthood, marriage, regret, memory, and the words we leave unsaid. It is a story about love arriving too late for one family-and perhaps just in time for another.
This version captures the central mystery and emotional stakes without revealing the ending or Tomi's fate.
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