“My Alessandra, “All the poets in all the world could write odes to your beauty. You are lovely, stunningly beautiful. Even a fool could see it. “But that is not what drew me to you. It was your eyes. It was the way you didn’t look at me that made me realize you are special. You didn’t look at me like I was a king, someone to be respected and worshipped. You looked on me as a man. A man who says foolish things and makes terrible decisions. You made me remember what it is to be human. “I’d forgotten. Having spent a full year with no one to touch, no one to talk to—it was you who reminded me
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