The Letter

[Spoken MRS. WILKINSON] What's this? [Spoken BILLY] It's a letter [Spoken MRS. WILKINSON] I can see it's a letter [Spoken BILLY] You can open it if you want [Spoken MRS. WILKINSON] Thank God for that, the suspense was killing me [Spoken BILLY] It's from me mum [Spoken MRS. WILKINSON] Your mum? [Spoken BILLY] She wrote it for us when I was eighteen, but since I couldn't wait [Spoken MRS. WILKINSON] I see [Spoken BILLY] You can read it if you want Read it out [Spoken MRS. WILKINSON] Dear Billy I must seem a distant memory [Spoken BILLY] Which is... [Spoken MRS. WILKINSON] Which is probably a good thing And it will have been a long- [Spoken BILLY] Long time [BILLY] And I will have missed you growing And I'll have missed you crying And I'll have missed you laugh Missed your stomping and your shouting I have missed telling you off But please, Billy Know that I was always there I was with you through everything And please, Billy... [MRS. WILKINSON] But please, Billy Know that I will always be Proud to have known you Proud that you were mine Proud in everything And you must promise me this, Billy [BILLY'S MUM] In everything you do Always be yourself, Billy And you always will be true And I will have missed you growing And I'll have missed you crying And I'll have missed you laugh [MUM & MRS. WILKINSON] Missed your stomping and your shouting I have missed telling you off But please, Billy Know that I was always there I was with you through everything And please, Billy Know that I will always be Proud to have known you [MUM] Love you forever [BILLY] Love you forever [MRS. WILKINSON] Mam