I’ve been working on a project for about a month now. I’ve decided to write a book to my daughters. Not for publication, but for them. Each day I have written about 250 words, and I thought I would share the first with all of you. So, here it is: the first page of this new project.
Love Letters
Everyone on Twitter knows how much I love you, except you. Everyone on Faceboook knows the apprehension with which I raise both of you. Everyone on Tumbler knows I have eight-year-old twin girls, that you came to me after a fertility drought, after a bad marriage, after a long, hard battle of thick to thin, and there you were like bulbs in the earth waiting to be plucked.
I write letters to you in this white humming space of a computer screen, and give them to other people. I write love letters to you in the crowded room of my mind, and never see them again.
In my sentences you are still my babies. I remember the smell of you at one week old, ripe with a rotten belly button cord, sweet with synthetic milk on your tongue. I still feel the shape of you against the inside of me, the press of your unborn limbs against my skin.
When you are old enough to know what these words mean, those memories will be dull. They will melt into others and fade against the drama of teenage strife.
This is your eighth year and I’m writing you a book. Every day, 365 total entries, not for publication but for posterity. So you can remember my words, my voice, my addiction to you.
Dear Girls,
This is yours.
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