I am keeping it so that one day I can show it to you and tell you the truth in person.

Their idea of your place was a lie.

You will find your own place, and reach as high as you like to find it, and it will never — not once, not for anyone, not for as long as I am breathing and long after — be beneath a single soul on this earth.

That is not a wish.

It is a fact, and it is the first one your mother ever fought for.

Love, Mom.