Posted by Lesfriendly.com - The lesbian blog | Posted in Intimacy | Posted on 18-01-2010
Do you keep love letters from your lesbian lovers?
As some of you might know, a big flood and storm devastated our city last October 2009, and our house was submerged up to the roof. We have since then recovered, but until today I’m still cleaning (more like clearing) boxes of things that have been destroyed by the flood.
Anyway, the last box for me to clean was the box of childhood memorabilia I tucked away once upon a time. I cleaned it up only today because I had a hard time accepting that these well-documented moments from my early lesbian days could be gone. It contained letters from high school friends and lovers, some of which I even forgot existed.
Thankfully most of the letters in the box have dried, and some of the writings were still Legible. Still…I decided that I should do a once over and trash those that probably deserved trashing anyway.
I read the letters one by one. I felt a little nostalgic and slightly surprised at the childhood innocence the letters conveyed. Shy professions of love and admissions of infatuation filled the pages of the faded letters. It was so innocent, in fact, that the letters seemed normal. Not one contained any doubt as to the morality of the desire for another female. Most were really nothing but honest professions of affection and proposals for more time together.
An innocent lesbian love letter
Included in the box were letters I myself have written, but never had the courage to give. Oh, how different they were from what I write now!
I made a final act of loss of innocence: I threw the letters away, after reading them all.
I’ve got half a mind to get in touch with those girls and ask them if they remember what they’ve written. If they didn’t, I could remind them. I’m also curious about what happened to their sexualities – are they still queer, or even bisexual? Or straight as a ruler?
Could be an interesting conversation.
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