True History of the Kelly Gang

My wish for you my dearest child is that all the curse words and cruelty I have related in these pages seem queer and foreign to you like some some strange tile from an ancient  world.

But if they do not, and like me you have suffered from injustice at the hand of oppressors, remember that you’re a Kelly and never forget that you were mine and that you were loved.

Whatever they write about me, whatever names I am given or whatever falsehoods are attributed to me, know that much is true.  

Go out into the world and make of it what you wish. Write your own history, for you’re my future now.