<p>Raquel left her children to work abroad, so she could give them a better life. 
“I still remember the pain.” 
Her daughter Alyssa shares her feelings about their years apart. 
Episode 14 letter writer: Raquel
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Dear Daughter

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Extraordinary letters written from parents to their children with Namulanta Kombo. Sharing parenting advice, family stories and life lessons. Dear Daughter is an award-winning podcast from the BBC World Service about love, life, family, and raising children. It is the brainchild of Namulanta Kombo, a mother on a quest to create a ‘handbook to life’ for her daughter, through the advice of parents from all over the world. Each episode, a guest reads a letter they’ve written to their children (or their future children, or the children they never had) with the advice, life lessons, and personal stories they’d like t...