to a girl I've known my whole life - by Danny Li
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Let's be clear: this is not a love letter.
Let’s be clear: this is not a love letter. Because I'm not in love with you. At least, not anymore. One time in high school, you told me how you adored handwritten letters, their realness and rawness, so the next day I scribbled all my thoughts and feelings and dreams onto a sheet of paper I never sent you. I guess it was too raw and real and I was embarrassed. But that wasn't a love letter either, because I wasn't in love with you then. Not yet. No, that happened much later — at the end of undergrad, when I visited you at your college in the city of (brotherly) love. I was only in town…
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