A letter from Bride to Leonard from when they were a couple. (I'm assuming they used to be)
Dearest Leonardo,
Why do you leave me to burn away to nothing trapped in these walls I know so well? Come, my dear, and soothe my fiery anguish with your cool touch. Like a river swelled with the rains of many years, you crash and tumble down to the sea, away from me. And I need you. Run back, run up, great river of mine, come and take me to the sea with you. Te querido. My father, he loves me, and he wants what is best, but he is too attached to this land of his. I am not meant to plow these dead fields. If I were a man, I could go with you, and leave all this dust behind. But I am here, in the scorching nothingness doing a man's work without a man's freedom. Leonardo, I miss you. Please come home! You never write! You never tell me where you are going! Do you ever think about me? Do you even care!? I can't keep up this one sided relationship. Choose me or get out of my life. Only, I don't know if I could live without you. You are the sacred water that christens my undeserving body, and you are my life. So come to me. Come home safe, and love me like you once did. Leonardo, we can sit in amongst the trees of my father and picnic and be merry until death. Never again will we want or need or desire. We will have everything. Just you and me. I love you with all of my being.
Sincerely, Bride
P.S. I do not blame you for your family's actions when you were young and naïve. If that is why you are avoiding me, you don't need to worry about such notions. I love you.
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