Dear A,<\/p>\n
I don’t know what you heard me say.<\/p>\n
I don’t know what you told them.<\/p>\n
I don’t know what you’d told them before.<\/p>\n
I don’t know what motivations you might have for telling them things that aren’t true.<\/p>\n
I don’t know if things inside you are broken.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I don’t know if things outside you are broken, and you have to build a protective shell.<\/p>\n
I don’t know how to ask you these things.<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
I do know what I said.<\/p>\n
I do know what they told my parents.<\/p>\n
I do know how humiliating it was to have so many people involved.<\/p>\n
I do know how it felt to have everyone wondering if it were true.<\/p>\n
I do know that I loved you.<\/p>\n
I do know that no explanation in the world can make it not have happened.<\/p>\n
Love,<\/p>\n
Alden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear A, I don’t know what you heard me say. I don’t know what you told them. I don’t know what you’d told them before. I don’t know what motivations you might have for telling them things that aren’t true. … Continue reading