The Unsent

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In memoriamNo. 11,988·69 days ago

Dad.

The nurse said you went peaceful. I don't want peaceful. I want Tuesday back. You called. You said you loved me. I said yeah you too gotta go. I was making pasta. Pasta. I hung up on you for pasta. I found your glasses in the downstairs drawer. I put them on. Couldn't see a thing. A truck went past yesterday. Diesel. I was eight again for…
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To familyNo. 07,069·72 days ago

My Ellen,

This morning you asked me, very politely, who I was, and I told you I was your husband. You smiled at me the way a person smiles at a pleasant stranger on a bench. I have taught myself not to mind it where you can see. It troubles you when I mind it, so I have learned to save that for later. I do not weep in front of you anymore. After yo…
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No. 49,053To future loves28 days ago

maya

ok im actually leaving this one in and not deleting it at the last sec like a coward so. you knew i liked you. obviously lol. for like 3 years which is genuinely insane now that its typed out you were always so nice abt…
— alex. 3rd row, the quiet one. u know the one♡ 12
No. 79,062To future loves29 days ago

My darling,

I have written you three letters today and burned two. This third one I will not send either, because a woman is not supposed to feel a thing this size before she has been given leave to, and I have never once in my life…
— Eleanor♡ 23
No. 63,175To exes31 days ago

Lena

I've started this like six times and deleted five and I dont even know why tonight is different except its late and I'm not letting myself stop, ok. I found your voicemail going through my phone, the airport one, "call m…
— M.♡ 55
No. 04,095To future loves33 days ago

Nadia

I have tried to say this to your face maybe a dozen times and my throat closes every single time, so I am doing it the coward's way, in writing, where you can't watch me malfunction. You know how you found me. Running on…
— Eli♡ 47
No. 41,440To future loves35 days ago

The one I never told

I don't know if this should even exist. Maybe it's too late. I loved you. Not loudly. Not the way it happens in films. I remembered how you took your coffee. I checked that you got home okay. Your name would come up and…
Anonymous♡ 79
No. 09,638To strangers37 days ago

To Miss Hartley

I wrote this letter on a Thursday in the spring of my twenty-fourth year, and I never sent it. They say a man ought to burn the letters he does not send. I could never quite manage it with this one. It has moved house wi…
— Edmund♡ 29
No. 49,022To exes40 days ago

The one who narrated eggs

I have to admit that loving you changed me, and that losing you changed me too. Maybe losing you most of all. I didn't know who I'd be on the far side of you, and now I more or less do, and I owe a little of that to you,…
— yours, in all the other rooms♡ 132
No. 43,286To exes43 days ago

Marco,

Everyone told me to hate you and I gave it an honest run. Turns out I'm bad at it. You lied. Constantly. You made me small because small was easier to keep. I've said all of this out loud to a therapist who nods a great…
— T.♡ 61
No. 40,042To exes44 days ago

The man who wound the watch

We did the divorce badly. The lawyers, the long silences, eating dinner in separate rooms of a house we both still slept in. For years I needed you to be the villain of it, because tidy was about all I could manage back…
— Claire♡ 92
No. 34,501To family46 days ago

To the woman who had me,

I don't really know what to call you, so I'll just start. I'm not angry. I want that at the very top, because for a long time I was, and if you ever read this you should get to skip the part where you brace for it. The a…
— your daughter, grown now♡ 137
No. 48,092To future loves49 days ago

Daniel,

You will never read this, and that is exactly why I can finally write it. I think about your hands. Specifically the thing you do where you put one flat on my back when we cross a street, like I'm about to bolt into traf…
— Priya, at full volume♡ 96
No. 19,889To family50 days ago

Mom,

I don't say this kind of thing right, I never have, so bear with me here. You gave so much of yourself for so long that I started treating it like air, like it was just the weather, always there and not worth mentioning.…
Anonymous♡ 116

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