Dear John:

So for ten months it felt as good as it would have felt if back in time your mother was there for you, if you didn’t grow up alone. If she was there, attentive to you as you needed her to be. It felt like heaven, didn’t it, euphoric. But then she pulled away, and the distress of that boy alone returned and you got desperate to have that good feeling again, that safety in her attention.

I wonder: no other woman before her or since paid that much attention to you as your ex did the first ten months?

anita