Our only boy,
I hope this finds you.
I miss you.
We are doing well as can be expected, considering everything.
We miss you.
How long is it now? A month, a year? One hundred years?
I’ve lost track….
I asked your father if he thought there would ever be peace. He said that people have to want peace for there to be peace. I said people need to be able to see peace to want peace. He said people need to feel peace to see peace. You know what our conversations are like….
I felt peace: When we had you. When you were here.
But since you’ve been gone—(one hundred years)—I can’t feel it anymore.
And I fear I won’t again, until you come back. And stay this time.
Your room is still empty.
So I have no peace.
So I am no help at all.
Come back to us.
I want to see peace, again.
Your father sends his love.
And I, mine.
Your only Mum
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