“My dearest Edmund,

It has hardly been an hour since our parting and yet I am no less wounded by the divide.

I simply had to write, to express the tide of emotions welling up inside me since our dance. For you have left me irrevocably changed in ways I thought I had long since grown past.

I thought I had loved before, but not so much and as deeply as I love you. Every moment spent away from you is pain so all-consuming, I fear I may never be whole ...