Alex isn't the only one writing letters anymore… This one is Tess'.
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Hi Claire,
Alex told me he tried to wrote some letters to you, so I did it too. I hope you won't get angry like when I wrote to BOM.
When I said we hadn't a past and we could not have a future I didn't think you were the one that could not be here in the future! I could bear the idea of not seeing my niece growing up, but I can't stand at the thought that she should grow up without her mother! Here we all need you, not only your daughter. You ARE Drovers, I can't even imagine this place without you!
I feel like I'm living in a nightmare: we already lost our Mums and our Dad, now you and Charlotte are my whole family, I can't lose you too, I can't bear it.
Maybe I could have stopped that bloody car somehow… You could have moved your leg…
Everytime I think about what happened I wonder what could I do or what if someone arrived to rescue us… It's so illogical what happened! The white horse made you skid, but you stayed in the roadway, then you take that hollow, you lost car control and we ended precariously balanced on a ravine. How many possibilities there were of all these things to happen? And this stupid mess risk to mark our lives forever…
You'd say that I must fight and I can't give up. I know you didn't give up, you couldn't leave your little daughter without her Mum, but what if…
What would be Drovers without Claire McLeod?
We still have to make up for 20 years we were apart, I only started to know you!
You changed a lot of lives here, mine, Alex's, Becky's… With your strength and your willpower helped us to improve ourselves.
Because of you I gave up the idea of opening a bar in the city, because of you I started loving this place and this life, our father's life and yours. These are my roots, here I reconciled with Dad's memory and I understood what was really important to him.
My Mum suffered for love, and I didn't want to do the same. I didn't want to fall in love and make me vulnerable. Here I've learned how to let people in again. You passed through more trouble then I did, but love made you happy, and I'm sure you wouldn't change any of the choices you made.
We all want to see you back here bossing around, I'm gonna go crazy trying to do you job wondering if or when you'll come home…
I had to go now, Charlotte's crying and nobody is at home except for me.
Bye
Your darling sister
Tess
Either you think this letter was in character or not, let me know, I'd appreciate. A lot.
