my dear child,

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


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

Любовь
your mother
fantine.