Amelia,
Sometimes it is easier to say how I really feel on paper and I thought you should know what I didn't say out loud even though I feel it everyday. So...here is my love letter so to speak to you.
Do you ever have people in your life that you have a kind of move for that is special just because you kind of identify with them? Sometimes there is something indefinable about the connection you feel to someone even if they are not a person you spend a lot of time with. You are one of those people for me.
I have always, from the first time you were little, loved you in a different, somehow a little bit more special that most. I hope the doesn't make you uncomfortable to hear. I just know that I joke around and act goofy a lot but that is only part of who I am. Really I am a terribly mushy person. I think that part of you is like that to.
I see so much more bubbling under the surface of what you actually choose to show. I see a bright, creative, beautiful, funny, frustrating, hard headed, talented, gifted, mushy, dark, sensitive, brooding, affectionate, obstinate, lovable clown and so much more.
One of the reasons I love to see you enjoying yourself with friends is because I get to see so much more of who you are. You open up and blossom when you think no one is looking. I love your beautiful heart and admire the devotion you have to friends.
Event though we are family, when you think about it we really don't know much about each others lives. I that that's okay and sometimes a good thing. You know, when I was your age I had a whole life that my family didn't know about and I think that's pretty normal but to this day they only know the edited version of half of what I went through. I just want you to know that I love you and accept you unconditional. People will think inevitably disappoint each other from time to time but I could never think less of you because I see your heart. I couldn't love you less even if I tried and I will always be there for you if you need me or even when you don't.
