What if the last text you ever received from your parent was the one that showed they finally understood you?
In this moving episode of Real Talk with Tina and Ann, author Amy Weinland Daughters shares a deeply personal moment following the release of her memoir, You Cannot Mess This Up. Just weeks after her book’s debut, she received an unexpected text from her father—simple, heartfelt, and filled with emojis. It was a message that said more than words ever could: “I read your book... you handled the delicate matters really well... I won’t say more because we don’t talk about that kind of stuff.”
One week later, he passed away suddenly. Though he never held the book in his hands, he read it—and Amy was left with a final message that became one of the greatest gifts of her life.
This episode is about family, unspoken love, generational silence, and how sometimes, closure arrives quietly—wrapped in text bubbles and 18 dog emojis.
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