{"id":15527,"date":"2025-11-01T00:40:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=15527"},"modified":"2025-11-01T00:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:40:04","slug":"i-found-an-old-vhs-tape-with-a-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=15527","title":{"rendered":"I found an old VHS tape with a note!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dad and I were gathering Mom\u2019s things from the hospital when I found a note in her safe that said, <strong>\u201cDON\u2019T SHOW LUCY\u201d<\/strong>\u2014and I <em>am<\/em> Lucy. Beneath it was an old VHS tape, which I watched in secret. The screen revealed my late grandfather, who hinted at a hidden family truth and instructed me to dig by the old oak tree near the creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curious and anxious, I followed his instructions and uncovered a rusted metal box buried underground. Inside were letters wrapped in cloth and a velvet pouch holding a sapphire ring. The letters revealed my grandfather\u2019s past love, a woman named Eleanor\u2014someone he never stopped caring for, even after marrying my grandmother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next day, I visited my grandmother and told her everything. Calmly, she admitted she always knew. Life had taken another direction, and although my grandfather once loved someone else, he built a life and a family with her. Love, she told me, isn\u2019t always simple\u2014sometimes two truths can exist at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, I returned the letters and box to the oak tree, leaving the past where it belonged. But I kept the ring\u2014not as a secret, but as a reminder that love is layered, complex, and lasting. Some stories aren\u2019t meant to be changed\u2014only understood, so we can move forward with peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dad and I were gathering Mom\u2019s things from the hospital when I found a note in her safe that said, \u201cDON\u2019T SHOW LUCY\u201d\u2014and I am Lucy. Beneath&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":250,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15530,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15527\/revisions\/15530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}