PARTE 2: La carta que mi madre nunca quiso que leyera

I looked at the envelope again.

The writing was unmistakable. I had seen it on grocery lists, birthday cards, school forms, and the small notes my mother used to leave beside my breakfast when I was a child.

The letters leaned slightly to the right. The capital A had a long, elegant crossbar. The final e in “you” always curved upward.

This was hers.

“I don’t know,” I whispered.

Daniel set the envelope on the table.

“Maybe Claire added it.”

“No.”

“You said it’s your mother’s handwriting.”

“It is.”

“Then