A conversation that I shall not be having with my mother

[debpeters]

"Hey, Mom. Could you do me a favor? Yeah. Could you go into the closet of my childhood bedroom? Okay, you know how there's a whole bunch of stuff on the shelf in there? Okay, so, I think, under all the Care Bears and behind the box of ballet costumes, is a little wooden box. In it is a dried carnation and a bunch of folded-up looseleaf. Could you

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[severewrath]

I can't imagine trying to write love letters like a lovelorn teenager. Good luck!

[debpeters]

Mr. Peters was able to go into his college email account and find several messages I sent him in 2004 (when I was, just barely, a lovelorn teenager)...

Equal points inspiration and embarrassment.