Postcard twenty-one

 Peggy,

    "Strange--but the more I know of you, the better I like myself." --- Helen Marshall

Maybe this is why your letters have struck my heart so hard, so deeply after such a long time. Your letters showed me...you. A you I had no idea was there. A you that let me show you...me. Not the little boy me everybody thinks I was, the power me, the universal me, dare I say the writer me, the me that wanted nothing but to love, to understand everyone, to know everyone, to know the universe... The me that didn't want to be human, wanted to be humanity... The me that eventually found her...

       I loved what you showed me.

     I liked that me.

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