Tho I long for the actual sunlight contact between us I miss you like a home. Shine back honey & think of me.
Such a perfectly sweet excerpt from a lovely letter. The historical love letters were something I came up with because I’ve always loved epistolary novels—they feel so immersive in ways that it can be hard to capture quite the same with straight-up prose. And for Alex and Henry, these letters say what they’re still holding back from each other. Alex includes this excerpt to Henry, indirectly calling Henry his home, before he even consciously realizes he’s in love with him. It’s a way to confess without confessing.
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