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Amid this devastating loss, Clapton also received something that shattered him all over again — a letter from Conor. Just days before the accident, the little boy had written his first-ever letter to his father, with help from his mother, Lory Del Santo. The note had been mailed to Clapton’s London home and tragically arrived only after Conor’s death.
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Lory remembered that heartbreaking moment vividly: ”The baby had learned to write a few words and he said to me, ‘Oh mummy, I want to write a letter to daddy, what shall I write?’ I told him, ‘Well, write, I love you.’ He wrote that and we posted it like a regular letter.
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