Dear Shirley:

You wrote that your special friend told you: ““I don’t see a perfect person. I see a flawed person still worth loving. The inner bully only sees the side of you that is broken because it can’t see anything else. What I see in you is a person that is whole and full of potential. I see the flaws in you, but they make you special. No inner bully can control the person you are.”

Your special friend verbal expressions are like yours, like your expressions in your poems. It is as if your special friend and you share the same … brain, the part that picks words and puts them together.

Regarding buying him a gift with money that you will make in the future- no, I don’t have any ideas. His love for you transcends the material world, and so, a non material gift will be appropriate, such as a photo of you with the words you used above: “You saved my life.”

anita