It is the only one that is true, and it did not change what I did, and I want to be honest about why, because it is not a very flattering reason and it is also, I think, correct.

She wrote it because it was August and she was frightened, and she has never written another one like it.

Letters six through eleven went straight back to the third position — that she did it to protect me, that Jessi had waited until I was overseas, that she has been treated as a criminal by a son she raised alone after his father died.

Letter nine contains a sentence about how she does not expect to meet her grandson before she dies.