Robert's Letter (August 30, 2001)
Anna brings the children to the hospital where Hayley and Mateo are having their first child.

Maddie: "Daddy!"

Edmund: "Oh, my God! Oh!"

Rosa: "Hi!"

Anna: "They were so excited, I had to bring them over."

Sam: "Is it a boy or a girl?"

Edmund: "Well, guess what... it's a boy. What do you think about that?"

Maddie: "He's just a baby. I'm one of the big kids."

Edmund: "Yeah. That means you're going to have to take care of him, right?"

Maddie: "Mm-hmm."

Edmund: "Yes, you are."

Isabella: "Oh, it's a wonderful day for our family."

Edmund: "Yes, it is."

Isabella: "Excuse me."

Edmund: "Yes, it is. And, Isabella, she... you know Maria would love to be here and she'd be very happy. You know that, right?"

Isabella: "Yes. Yes, I do."

Rosa: "Are you ok?"

Isabella: "Yeah. Thanks. Hey, let's get some ice cream."

Rosa: "Come on, guys."

Isabella: "Come on!"

Rosa: "Little people, follow me!"

Isabella: "Sam, do you want ice cream?"

Edmund: "Okay, ice cream!"

Edmund: "Hey, Anna."

Anna: "Oh, hi. Why aren't you with your family?"

Edmund: "Something wrong?"

Anna: "No, no. I just felt out of place. You know, it's such a big day for Hayley and Mateo and the family, and I just..."

Edmund: "You just felt out of place, so you wandered off? I don't think so."

Anna: "Sorry?"

Edmund: "I think you heard me talking to Mateo's mom about Maria."

Anna: "Oh, you think that bothered me?"

Edmund: "That's when you left. You tell me."

Anna: "No. Oh, God. I know how precious those memories are to you and how hard it is. At least Maria lives on in your memories. Don't ever lose that."

Edmund: "All this is making you think about Robert?"

Anna: "I wish I could."

Edmund: "Don't you see his face sometimes?"

Anna: "Yeah, but just flashes, you know. Nothing more, really. I wonder if he was there when Robin was born. I don't know that."

Edmund: "I wish I could help you, Anna."

Anna: "It's very crippling, you know, being blank."

Edmund: "You still haven't gone to Port Charles yet, you know."

Anna: "No."

Edmund: "You were going to talk to Robert's brother?"

Anna: "Yeah. I thought about it. But then, suppose I went and I didn't remember anything, it didn't make any difference... then what, you know? I'm a bit sick of trying.  I think that's why I didn't open this yet."

Edmund: "What's that?"

Anna: "It's a letter to Robin from her father. It's the last one he ever wrote to her. She kept it all these years, and she decided in her wisdom that I should have it, so she sent it to me, sealed with a note saying that I should open it when I felt ready."

Edmund: "Wouldn't that be about now?"

Anna: "Yeah, you'd think so. You would think so."

Edmund: "Why don't you open it, Anna."

Anna: "Oh, dear.  That's his handwriting. (She reads the first lines to Edmund.)  'Dear Robin, let me tell you about the woman I love, your mother, Anna.'"


Edmund: "You want to tell me what he said... Robert?"

Anna: "He wanted his daughter to know how much he loved me."

Edmund: "You knew that, didn't you, Anna?"

Anna: "No, I... I could hear his voice just now when I was reading that. That hasn't happened before. It was like he was here, speaking those words in that cocky, irritating voice. Robert. Gosh."

Edmund: "What? What?"

Anna: "I didn't really miss him before because I couldn't remember."

Edmund: "But now you do, right?"

(Anna has a sudden memory of the Explosion and gasps)  Anna: "Oh, God!"

Edmund: "Some... homemade from the hospital, but I think it's decaf, anyway."

Anna: "It's supposed to calm my nerves?"

Edmund: "You don't have to drink it."

Anna: "I'm sorry. You're just being kind. But then you're always kind."

Edmund: "Want to tell me what just happened?"

Anna: "My husband died. Robert. I saw him just before everything blew up. I couldn't remember that. And now it came back. Everything. From the moment we first met till that one last second."

Edmund: "Anna, you survived. Maybe your husband did, too."

Anna: "No. No. I was further away from the blast. There was nothing left. Nothing. I couldn't do anything except watch. I forgot. He died, and I forgot. For all these years. But, then, who would want to remember something like that, really?"

Edmund: "Anna, remember this... none of that was under your control."

Anna: "Well, it still isn't, is it?"

Edmund: "I don't know about that. You know what happened now."

Anna: "Yeah. I know my husband loved me and he died. I'll never see him again. I think I need to be alone now."

Edmund: "It's not a very good idea."

Anna: "Why? You think I'm going to fall apart without you to lean on?"

Edmund: "I know how strong you are, Anna."

Anna: "Good. Good. Then you treat me that way."

Edmund: "Hey, even tough guys need somebody to lean on once in a while, okay? Just come back with me to the waiting room, okay? There's... we don't have to talk about this. There's a newborn baby. Nobody's going to bother you, okay? Listen, you're family now, okay? You should be with us."

Anna: "Oh, God, Edmund, don't you get it? They're your family. They're not mine."

Edmund: "Anna, what you said about not being family... that's just not true. Hayley, Mateo, my kids, my brother... they all love you."

Anna: "They barely know me."

Edmund: "Well, that's the thing. It doesn't matter. They're on your side."

Anna: "You mean they feel sorry for me? I don't need that."

Edmund: "I don't feel sorry for you, Anna."

Anna: "Then why did you come looking for me?"

Edmund: "Because..."

Anna: "Because you're a kind, decent man and you thought that I would be upset by all that domestic bliss in the waiting room."

Edmund: "Seems like another country."

Anna: "I lived there, too, once, with a beautiful husband and a beautiful daughter. Oh, well. I'm someplace so far from that now. I can never go back."

Edmund: "But you want to."

Anna: "I don't know what I want."

Edmund: "Let me help you."

Anna: "Why? No. I have to figure this out myself."

Edmund: "But, Anna, that leaves you so alone."

Anna: "I am alone. I am alone. If you have trouble with that, that's your problem."

Isabella: "Maddie smells like a new baby. Look who's here... Daddy. Go ahead."

Maddie: "Daddy!"

Edmund: "What? Oh, how pretty."

Sam: "Hi, Dad."

Edmund: "Hi."

Maddie: "Guess what."

Edmund: "What?"

Maddie: "Cousins."

Edmund: "Cousins. That's pretty cool, huh?"

Isabella: "Were you able to find Anna?"

Edmund: "Yeah. But she's... she'll be back. She had to go home for a while."

Sam: "If we're the baby's cousins, then what are you?"

Edmund: "What am I? I'm his uncle."

Maddie: "Uncle Edmund?"

Edmund: "Yep."

Maddie: "And what is Anna?"

Edmund: "Anna? Anna is just Anna, I guess."

Maddie: "Okay."

Edmund: "Okay."

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