THE LOST LETTER by MARIA KESEYA CHRIST LIBRON

March 24, 2025

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CHARACTERS: ELARA (mother), OLIVIA (Elara's Daughter) & DANIEL (Olivia's Husband)

SCENE 1: One afternoon at a Dusty Attic

(Elara rummages through boxes in a dimly lit attic.

Olivia watches her, a mixture of curiourity and impatience on her face.)

OLIVIA: Mom, are you sure this is where you left it? Grandma's letters are important.

ELARA: (Dusting off a box) Patience, Olivia. These memories, they're fragile. Like these old photographs.

(Elara pulls out a faded photograph. Olivia recognizes her grandmother.)

ELARA: Your grandmother... she was a remarkable woman. Full of life, full of recrets.

OLIVIA: Secrets? What kind of secrets?

ELARA: (Sighs) Things she never told anyone. Except maybe... in her letters.

(Elara finds a small, sealed envelope tucked away in the box.)

SCENE 2: Olivia's Apartment Evening

(Olivia sits at her kitchen table, carefully opening the letter. Daniel watches her, concerned.)

OLIVIA: It's from Grandma to someone named Thomas. A man she never mentioned.

DANIEL: Maybe it's just an old friend. Nothing to worry about.

OLIVIA: (Reads aloud from the letter) "My dearest Thomas, if you're reading this, it means I'm gone, I've kept my promise, but my heart aches with regret."

DANIEL: Wow. This is intense....

OLIVA: She talks about a life she could have had... a different path the chose not to take. A life she kept hidden.

SCENE 3: During daytime at seaside cliff. (Olivia stands on a cliff overlooking the seo, the letter clutched in her hand. Elara joins her.)

OLIVIA: I Found out who Thomas was. He was a famous artistsl. Grandma was his muse.

ELARA: (Nods sadly) she loved him deeply. But she chose family. She sacrificed her own dreams for us.

OLIVIA: And she never regretted it?

ELARA: (Looks out al the sea) She did. But she also found joy in her choices. She loved your grandfather, your father, me. She found her own kind of happiness.

OLIVIA: (Look at the letter, then at her mother) I understand now. It wasn't about the secrets, it war about the choices she made and the life she lived.