Dear Daddy,

  i am sorry that we never had a good relationship when you were alive. when i was a little girl i remember sitting on your lap and loved all the attention you gave me. i knew that you loved me. my favorite t-shirt was my "Daddy's Girl" shirt. i was your little girl and i was happy that you were my daddy. but as i got older our relationship was strained. i know that you didn't know how to handle the fact that i was growing up and becoming a woman. i know that you had trouble relating to me so you just didn't. but i stopped trying too. i remember being 10 years old and feeling guilty that i hugged and kissed my mom every night before i went to bed but i stopped doing that to you. so i started saying "i love you dad" before i went to bed and you seemed shocked. i never stopped loving you because you were my father but i didn't know how to tell you that once i became a teenager. i never hated you like i pretended i did when i was an angsty teen. and i am sorry if i ever made you feel that way. but i felt that way about you also. sometimes you made me feel invisible but i know that you also never meant to make me feel that way. sorry for ignoring you for so many years. i'm sorry that the only way we could communicate was when you would buy me drinks at the bar when i was in my 20s. i didn't mean to make you worry about me when i'd get too drunk and leave the bar with boys or get into drunken fights. thank you for being there for me and protecting me at the bar and in my life in general. i always felt safer when you were around. sorry you didn't get to see me get married. i know that you always liked jamie. sorry you will never see your grandchildren if we ever have kids. i know that you will be watching over us. sorry i wasn't around as much as i should have been when you were in the hospital dying, but i couldn't handle it. i hope you heard me when i said "goodbye". I love you.

Love, Jolie