---The First Letter---

'Becky',

This is your mother writing. I know your brother chose your pseudonym as a joke, probably thinking that you'd never know. Well, the jokes on him. I'm leaving this note for you along with "A Simple Domestic Love Story", the memoir he wrote about how I became his lover. As I've read and re-read this story I could feel his love not just for me, but also for you. He's always naturally taken something of a fatherly role with you, tucking you in, helping you with homework, driving you around. Even before he and I made love for the first time.

Its strange not to have...