my dear child,

so much has pasted since the دن that i took آپ to live with those people, i know that آپ are so very young still but if آپ could read this letter, آپ would know and soon come to understand why i had to do what i did,

i was desparate and i had to find a job, and where i was working let me pay for آپ to get the things that i could never give you, like a بستر to sleep in, and all of the pretty clothes that i paid with my own money to feed آپ and keep آپ safe,


I know that آپ don't understand this now, but when آپ become a mother آپ will come to understand why i had to do what i did yo save you, because your father abandoned us living us with nothing but the clothes on our backs.

love
your mother
fantine.