Author -- Jazz Dancer

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(That profile should be correct. I know that's the name of the person who wrote this response. There is someone on this site with that screen name).

Note 2:

Anakin:

I never meant to hurt you or your mother; I have alot of regrets in my life and selling your mother and you to slavery was the worse I could ever do.

I don't expect you to forgive me, but I need you to try and understand, we were poor, and loosing more money a day then we would make in a month; I couldn't support 3 kids, myself, and your mother. I did what I did to try and save everyone. I knew that if I wouldn't have been able to get money soon, then none of us wouldn't have been able to survive. At the time, I did what I felt needed to be done.

I realise my mistake now, and you are right, I deserve to pay for my wrong doing. I don't expect you to ever forgive what I did, that would be asking for too much. All I want you to know, is that I'll always love you, no matter what you do and who you are.

I'm very proud to know that you are training to become a Jedi Knight.

Your loving father,
Summoner

Part 2

Anakin,

I've known this day was coming since I first had to sell your mother and you into slavery. It was wrong of her to tell you this truth when you are still so young and passionate, but I can see that she wanted you to know before you left her circle of correspondence forever.

I don't know what I can say to you to make you understand, Anakin, that it hurt me immeasurably more than it hurt you and your mother to sell you into slavery. Shmi is the most loving woman that a person can hope to have by his side—and I know you know this to be true, having been raised solely by her. What could possibly have possessed a person like me to destroy all that by selling her and my young son? I'll tell you Anakin: only naked desperation. For years I've struggled with a gambling problem, I'll admit to you. Let's just say I ended up in the bad favor of the Hutts…and Anakin, no one gets off easy after crossing the Hutts. My options were to sell you and your mother or risk losing you forever when I couldn't provide anything for you. I sold your freedom to buy your life.

I know that you are young and very much controlled by your emotions right now. But I hope that you can someday realize how much you and your mother meant to me. How much your brothers and I have suffered all these years without you. It's not over, Anakin. I'm saving up again, now that your brother's medical expenses have waned, and I will buy your mother back from Watto.
Focus on your destiny, Anakin. I know that you are now training to be the most powerful of this galaxy's warriors. Your fate isn't to destroy me—it's to balance the corruption in this galaxy in which we live; the corruption that leads to tragedies such as ours in the first place.

Your father,

Cliegg