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Dear Daughter	A
Can you be fifty three this	B
month I still look for you to peek around	C
my door as if you'd discovered a toy	D
you thought gone for good ready at my smile	E
to run up and press your fist into my	F
broken palm But your own girls have outgrown	G
such games and I cannot pilfer back time	H
I spent pursuing Freedom Fair to you	I
to your brothers your mother Hardly	J
	-
But	K
what other choice did I have What sham	L
what shabby love could I offer you so	M
long as Thomas Auld held the law over	A
my head And when the personal threat was	N
ended whose eyes could mine enter without	O
shame if turning toward my wife and children	P
meant turning my back	Q
	-
Your mother's eyes stare	R
out at me through yours of late You think I	F
didn't love her that my quick remarriage	S
makes a Gertrude of me a corseted	O
Hamlet of you You're as wrong as you are	T
lucky Had Anna Murray had your	U
education as a girl my love for	U
her would have been as passionate as it	O
was grateful But she died illiterate	O
when I had risked my life to master language	V
The pleasures of book and pen retain	W
the thrill of danger even now and you	I
may understand why Ottilie Assing	Q
come into our house to translate me into	I
German could command so many hours	X
years of my time or as you would likely	J
say of your mother's time	H
	-
Forgive me	J
Rosetta for broaching such indelicate	O
subjects but as my eldest child and	O
only living daughter I want you to	I
feel certain that Helen became the new	I
Mrs Douglass because of what we shared	O
in sheaves of my papers let no one	P
persuade you I coveted her skin	Y
I am not proud of how I husbanded	O
your mother all those years but marriage	S
too is a peculiar institution	P
I could not have stayed so unequally yoked	O
so long without a kind of Freedom in	Y
it Anna accepted this and I don't	O
have to tell you that her lot was better	A
and she happier than if she'd squatted	O
with some other man in a mutual	Z
ignorance	A2
	-
Perhaps I will post rather	A
than burn this letter this time I've written it	O
so often right down to these closing lines	B2
in which I beg you to be kinder much	C2
kinder to your step mother You two are	T
of an age to be sisters and of like	Q
temperament under other circumstances	D2
you might have found Friendship in each other	A
	-
With regards to your husband I am as	E2
ever your loving father	A

Evie Shockley

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