I know that while the Christmas season held both our family’s happiest and saddest moments. You probably don’t remember—you were too little back then—but the happiest I’ve seen you was always during Christmas time. That expression glee when it miraculously snowed in Los Angeles… Those mixed feelings during the play where you stole the show as a fairy princess… That gleam in your eyes as you bounced with me to that fateful trial…
However, those beautiful memories were threatened—they were nearly obscured by the more difficult Christmases. The blackness of the night when our car skidded across the road… The protective embrace your mother wrapped around you… The last notes that slipped past her lips before she fell asleep… Forever… It was also during this time I had to say goodbye.
I can’t even remember my last moments except that I wish I wasn’t so soft hearted. I wish I refused to take you with me. I wish I didn’t give into those pleading eyes. The same eyes that became my world. The same eyes that kept me going all those years. The same eyes that became my only reason for everything. I lost sight of them, and though they’re not quite the same the next time I saw them, I still saw something—someone—there: my son. That would never change.
It’s Christmas time again, today the 28th of December, no less. The date that became known as the day of the DL-6 Incident. The day when defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth was murdered. But don’t forget that it was also the day when a nine-year-old boy named Miles Edgeworth survived. Fifteen years later, right before the case can follow into the grave and be forgotten, it resurrected. And after the Truth was unearthed, prosecutor Miles Edgeworth lived.
Don’t you see? Today is a day of celebration. It was a long and winding tale which touched more lives than I can imagine, but it finally reached its conclusion. Now, it’s time for new beginnings. A new chapter in your life, son. Let the past remain where it is and don’t allow it to bind you. The time has come for you to say goodbye to me as well. A farewell that is only temporary for I know we would meet again and we have. We’ve missed so many Christmases together, but there’s only one thing I want and one thing only. Please grant me this simple wish.
Miles… Don’t cry. I want you to smile. So smile for me, please. I want to see it again. I love it, just as I always have and will forever love everything that is you. Show me that smile I love most. It may be “only that”, but what may be “only that” means the world to me. With that smile, I know. I know that what I call the world is alive in you.
