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A pair of hands holds an old, handwritten letter. Overlaid text reads: 'A Letter to My Grown-Up Kids There's so much I wish you could understand now that you're older—but I'll probably never tell you every detail.'
A pair of hands holds an old, handwritten letter. Overlaid text reads: 'When you were little, I was surviving things you couldn't see. I was carrying memories that haunted me, fear that gripped me, and exhaustion that lived in my bones. I was rebuilding myself from rubble, all while trying to be everything you needed.'
A pair of hands holds an old, handwritten letter. Overlaid text reads: 'You might remember me as tired. Short-tempered sometimes. Guarded. But you didn't see that the reason I was like that was because I was holding back floods you were never meant to drown in.'
A pair of hands holds an old, handwritten letter. Overlaid text reads: 'I wasn't broken because of you. I was broken before you. But healing while raising you meant you sometimes met the version of me who was still piecing herself together. And for that, I'm sorry.'
A pair of hands holds an old, handwritten letter. Overlaid text reads: 'There's a part of me that wishes you knew the full truth—so you could see that the moments I fell short weren't because I didn't care, but because I was fighting to keep us both safe. But there's another part of me that's relieved you don't know, because it means I succeeded in keeping the worst of it away from you.'
A pair of hands holds an old, handwritten letter. Overlaid text reads: 'It's a strange kind of love—one that hides the darkness so you can live in the light. But it's the only kind of love I knew how to give, and I gave it with everything I had.'
A pair of hands holds an old, handwritten letter. Overlaid text reads: 'If you take nothing else from your childhood, I hope you take this—you were always worth the fight. Always. Love, Mum'
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