a good break-up letter

Dear Karen,

If you are reading this, it means I actually worked up the courage to mail it,

so, good for me. You don’t know me very well, but if you get me started, I

have a tendency to go on and on about how hard the writing is for me. But

this, this is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write. There is no easy way

to say this, so I’ll just say it. I met someone, it was an accident, I wasn’t

looking for it, I wasn’t on the make, it was the perfect storm. She said one

thing, I said another, the next thing I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my

life in the middle of that conversation. Now there is this feeling in my gut, she

might be the one, she is completely nuts, in a way that makes me smile highly

neurotic. A great deal of maintainence is required. She is you, Karen!

that’s the good news, The bad is I don’t know how to be with you right now,

and it scares the shit out of me. Because if I am not with you right now, I have

this feeling we’ll get lost out there. It is a big bad world full of twisting

turns, and people have a way of blinking, missing the moment, the moment

that could have changed everything. I don’t know what’s going on with us,

and i can’t tell you why you should waste a leap of faith on the likes of me. But

damn, you smell good, like home, and you make excellent coffee, that’s

gonna count for something, right? Call me!

Unfaithfully yours,

.y