my dear child,

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


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

प्यार
your mother
fantine.