In a Single Tweet"

On a quiet winter night, Layla sat in her room scrolling through her phone aimlessly. She opened Twitter, as she often did, looking for something—anything—to distract her mind. Her thumb paused suddenly on a tweet from an anonymous account:

"Sometimes, a single tweet can change your whole day... or your life."

She smirked, skeptical, but read it again and again until she finally replied:

"I don’t think 280 characters can change anything."

Moments later, the same account responded:

"Have you ever tried writing what you're afraid to say out loud?"

Layla hesitated, then typed something simple, something buried deep inside:

"I miss my father, even though he left us ten years ago."

That night, she fell asleep feeling strangely lighter. The next morning, she opened her phone and was stunned—her tweet had gone viral. Hundreds of strangers replied, sharing their own stories of loss, grief, and hope. For the first time in a long while, Layla felt something she had forgotten: she wasn’t alone.

Then, among the replies, she saw one that stopped her breath.

"I am your father… please reach out to me."