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[[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] have me come as I am to be able to, at least you do not say so as you used to do.

I have not forgotten the letter about you + one that I said I as writing you when I left. I shall send it when I can, because I want you to understand all the truth about how I feel + always have felt + about your birth + everything. Of course no two people feel alike + therefore the truth for me may not seem to be the truth for your father or you or any body else concerned.

But each person has to be honest for himself - that is all that anyone can do.

Usually parents and older people do not explain things of this kind to children + leave them in the dark, either to imagin [[imagine]] that all the facts were different or to conceive resentments + form opinions without foundation.

Now (whether you like it or not) you can't be a child altogether much longer and for the good of yourself + your