Page 128 - The Letter By Ann Newhouse
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‘I think he loved you Amber, I really do’, he continued, ‘but I can imagine that he was really torn between his love for me and my mum and staying with you, especially when he found out she was dying’.
‘He knew it would destroy her if he told her about you’, he let out a sob of real pain and the tears rolled down his face, ‘It breaks my heart that I never got to meet him, so he could explain all of it before his accident’.
We stayed in each other’s arms for a long time.
We ate dinner in silence knowing that after we would have to sort out the documents. He handed me his birth certificate with Anthony O’ Keefe stated as his father. He explained that his mother had Tony’s name added before she died. Her parents wouldn’t allow it before, even though they knew who he was.
Looking at his passport photo I saw a young Tony, how had I missed it before!
I passed on all of Tony’s documents I had left including his will and his wrist watch to Rex, feeling bad that I had given away so much of Tony’s other possessions. In return he showed me all the information on his inheritance. It felt strange talking to him about Tony this way.
By the time Rex had told me all about his life in Canada we had opened our second bottle of wine. He told me how every day his mother use to say that maybe this was the day his father would come to see him and that at the end of each night he would cry himself to sleep in her arms knowing she did the same.
He was still grieving for his mother he said and that all he ever wanted was to take her away from her parents and bring her to England to be with Tony.


































































































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