Love Letters Page #8

Will meet you at your mother's.

Don't.

I don't want to see you.

I won't be there.

I'll be gone, Andy, I swear.

I'll be gone.

Dear Mrs. Gardner:

The first letter

I ever wrote was to you...

...accepting an invitation

for Melissa's birthday party.

Now I'm writing you again,

about her death.

I want to say a few things on paper

I didn't say at her funeral...

...both when I spoke and when

you and I talked afterwards.

As you may know...

...Melissa and I managed to...

...stay in touch with each other

over the years...

...through letters. Even as I write this

to you, I feel I'm writing it also to her.

Oh, you're in your element now.

We had a complicated

relationship, she and I.

All our lives...

...we went in very

different directions...

...but somehow,

over all those years...

...I think we managed to give

something to each other.

-Damn right.

-Melissa expressed all those...

...dangerous and rebellious feelings...

...I never dared admit to.

Now you tell me.

And I like to think I gave her

some sense of balance.

Balance?

Oh, hell, I give up.

Have it your own way, Andy.

Balance.

Most of the things I did in life,

I did with her partly in mind.

And now she's gone.

I really don't know how

I'll get along without her.

-You'll survive.

-I have a wonderful wife...

...fine children and a place

in the world I feel proud of...

...but the death of Melissa suddenly

leaves a huge gap in my life.

Oh, now, Andy.

The thought of never again being

able to write to her, to connect to her...

...to get some signal back from her...

...fills me with an emptiness...

...which is hard to describe.

Oh, stop, Andy.

I don't think there are many men

in this world who've had the benefit...

...of such a friendship

with such a woman.

But it was more than friendship too.

I know now that I loved her.

I loved her even from

the day I first saw her...

...when she walked

into the second grade...

...looking like

the Lost Princess of Oz.

Oh, please, Andy.

I don't think I've ever loved

anyone the way I loved her...

...and I know I never will again.

She was at the heart of my life...

...and already I miss her desperately.

I just wanted to say this

to you, Mrs. Gardner...

...and to her.

Thank you, Andy.

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