Matt Burke and his beautiful daughter share a bond that can only be truly understood by a father and daughter. Matt wrote a story and published it online about the struggle of being a single parent who lives paycheck to paycheck.
His story is filled with moments that would bring any parent to tears.
“There have been too many evenings to count where I’ve gone without dinner so that she would be able to eat,”
His daughter is his everything, and to him, she deserves the world. And although he may not be able to currently afford giving her the world at the moment, she and him hold hands and dive right into a fictional one together: The world of Harry Potter.
When his daughter asked for him to read the Harry Potter books with her, he was a little bit timid at first.
“Now, if I’m being honest here, at first I was a little bit hesitant about getting involved in it because even in my mid 30’s I still seem to think I’m too cool for some things.”
But it didn’t take long before he got sucked into the series himself.
“We’re having an absolute BLAST reading them together”
Despite not being able to afford the newest toys and video games, Matt and his daughter bond over something much more valuable: The ability to escape their current world and ignite the imagination through reading.
Matt shared his online story to J.K. Rowling as a way of thanking her for providing them with something so magical. He didn’t expect it to reach her, but was happy to share anyways.
People responded with overwhelming support and love.
Like an owl delivering a letter, J.K. Rowling responded with a request: his address, where she should send Matt and his daughter a complete signed set of the Harry Potter Books.
People were pretty stoked.
