Please Be Mine

January 22, 2025

january 22, 2025

Shelly,

I know that I just wrote you a letter (that one is already in the mail), but after letting my thoughts really sit with me for a day, I’ve decided I have more to say.

I think you deserve to know what it means to truly feel loved. It sounds to me that this guy Cory was unable to give that to you, and I know it’s really scary to even fathom putting yourself out there again, but I think you deserve that. You deserve to be treated right, even if it means “putting your heart through the ringer” again. I haven’t really been in a serious relationship like you have, so hey, I may not be the best person for advice. But out of anyone in this world who deserves happiness, it’s you. You light up a room when you’re in it. You make people feel really loved. You skip classes and fly across the country to be there for a friend who couldn’t even say anything to you in return.

A life of solitude may be easier, but I’m not sure that is equivalent to a life of happiness.

And I want you to be happy, Shelly.

Jake