The letters surprised me mainly because they don’t seem to be written by the girl I’ve always thought I was. But that isn’t the most important discovery, it’s something else: I realized that Michele doesn’t know me at all if he thinks my attitude at that time was free and rebellious. I’m much freer today, much more rebellious. He continues to address me through an image that no longer reflects who I am. Nothing that’s happened over the years has scratched that image: maybe because we no longer talk the way we did when we were engaged, about ourselves, about what was happening inside us. If I
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