“Inside this box you will find your mother’s diary and
you will find letters your mother wrote your father …some of which she did not send
and some that were returned when the messenger could not reach him. In there
also you will find a stack of letters tied with a purple ribbon… Those are from
your mother to you my dear.”
“Letters for me? Mother left letters for me? What is in
them? What did she write me about?” In her surprise, Violet could not contain
her feelings and thoughts.
“She started writing them before you were born…. She
wrote you more when she got sick shortly after. I don’t know what is in them
and didn’t ask. She asked me to give them to you when you were old enough to
understand, but never told me what was in them. I figured that it must be
something she wanted you to know directly from her in some way or another. They
are all yours. I am sure they will tell you much about your life.”