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land in Glen Arbor. I was a young impressionable girl and didn’t consider that he may leave one day. All I thought about was the now. He tried to tell me he couldn’t stay but I wouldn’t listen. He was on a contract and needed to leave and return to England when it was over. There was no way my father would let me leave and go far away over the ocean. So when his time was up, he left. He wrote for a time and then stopped.
    By then I knew I was expecting you but didn’t tell him. I wanted him to return because he loved me, and perhaps he thought about it, but it was a long trip and I don’t think he wanted to make his home in Australia. I kept my pregnancy to myself as long as I was able. My mother being a nurse considered I should have an abortion when she found out, but I could not do that, I wanted his baby more than anything. I always thought that one day we would travel to England and find him, and we did travel there, but, I only half found him.
    If he was happy to meet you then maybe, just maybe, life could have been different. By the time I did find him, there were other problems. My life with you was the best gift in the world, you made up for everything. The strongest part of your father you inherited, were his green eyes. And every time I looked into them I saw him. Why did my sister and her husband adopt you? She was younger than me by a year, and she was married. It seemed the best solution as far as society goes, to pass you off as my sister’s child. She had her appendix out at fourteen and it ruined her insides so she could never have children. Your uncle Marcus showed no interest in children that I could see? In fact I don’t think he was normal because a marriage of convenience was all he seemed to want, or so I thought at the time. I did learn differently from him later. But to you and Ella, I became a star. Thank you both for that.
    So that is my story. I know I am dying so your grandmother’s home will go on to be yours. I hope Ella is there with you as she is a special girl. This is not the end of the story. I want you to live three months in the valley and then my lawyer will give you a clue about your father. I believe you will be surprised. But you and Ella both need a good rest as you have both worked very hard, and the valley will recharge you both. I do truly love the pair of you.
    Your Mother – Primrose xx”
    â€œThat’s strange.” Ella took the letter and studied the signature. “Why did your aunt – or mother as we now know her to be, sign herself as mother, almost to the both of us? Do you suppose she saw herself as my mother also?” Treasure reached out and took the letter back, and studied what Ella referred to.
    â€œYes! I see what you mean, that is strange indeed – but like you said, perhaps she saw you as a daughter as well; I know I have always looked upon you as a little sister. And she always looked out for your welfare as well as mine. She was a truly wonderful person and I believe I am very glad she was my mother, I just wish she could have shared that with me when she was alive.”
    â€œLife isn’t always how we would like it to be is it? I mean, perhaps she also had her husband to consider. Even though they may not have had a normal marriage, he was also a convenience for her wasn’t he. It seems he supported her money wise and perhaps he paid for her to take you to France and travel to England. We will never know. He may have also known you were really her child!”
    Treasure put her hand to her mouth. She had not thought that far ahead, but perhaps he did. She now felt she owed him an explanation for departing and not being at the house after the funeral.
    â€œI can’t phone him, but soon I will write him a long letter and explain that it was too much for us to be there for the wake. I will tell him we are here and invite him to come and visit whenever he would like. I am sure he would