" You seem to think I'm ashamed of you and that I don't love you. In that you are dead wrong... You are my firstborn, my only son, my flesh and blood. I loved you, son, from the first minute I heard your baby's cry. And I've loved you every minute since. You think you haven't been the boy that I wanted... Well, I know I ain't been the father you you wanted neither. But please son, wherever you go, whatever you do, please know that I love you and that I always have and that I always will. "

― Pamela Morsi , Simple Jess (Tales from Marrying Stone, #2)