my dear child,

so much has pasted since the 日 that i took 你 to live with those people, i know that 你 are so very young still but if 你 could read this letter, 你 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 你 to get the things that i could never give you, like a 床, 床上 to sleep in, and all of the pretty clothes that i paid with my own money to feed 你 and keep 你 safe,


I know that 你 don't understand this now, but when 你 become a mother 你 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.

爱情
your mother
fantine.