The Tender Bonds

<p>On the last day of kindergarten Patty Dykstra's mother picked her up after school and told Patty they'd be going on a trip to visit an aunt in New Jersey.  Six-year-old Patty didn't know she and her mother would not be coming back and that she would leave behind her father her home and the only life she'd never known. </p><p>Thirty-six years later Patty discovers cards that had been written to her by the father she had been told was 'gone'.</p><p>Patty travels back to the to the small town she left behind as a child to find the man who used to call her starshine the father she barely remembers. What she finds both surprises and shocks her. Jack Dykstra is a far cry from the man she idealized as her daddy.  And Patty must learn to stand up for her own self-worth in order to accept and forgive him.</p>