The Letter

What's this?
It's a letter.
I can see it's a letter.
You can open it if you want.
Thank God for that; the suspense was killing me.
It's from me mam.
From your mam?
She wrote it for us when I was 18, except I couldn't wait.
I see.
You can read it if you want.
Read it out.

Dear Billy, I must seem a distant memory...
Which is...
Which is probably a good thing. And it will have been a long...
Long time.

And I will have missed you growing,
And I'll have missed you crying.
And I'll have missed you laugh.

Missed your stomping and your shouting,
I'll have missed telling you off,
But, please, Billy,
Know that I was always there.
I was with you through everything.
And please, Billy...

And please, Billy,
Know that I will always be
Proud to have known you.
Proud that you were mine,
Proud in everything,
And you must promise me this, Billy

In everything you do
Always be yourself, Billy
And you always will be true

And I'll have missed you growing,
I'll have missed you crying...
And I'll have missed you laugh.

Missed your stomping and your shouting,
I'll have missed telling you off,
But please, Billy,
Know that I was always there.
I was with you through everything.

And please, Billy,
Know that I will always be
Proud to have known you.

Love you forever
Love you forever

Mam.

She must have been a very special woman.
No. She was just me mam.