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Dear Jane,
Dear Jane,
Something I’ve never said very much: thank you. I thought that I was going to be different from the men that take advantage of you but I guess I’m not. For that I’m sorry. I grew up into something that I never wanted to be, a man without direction, and I did my best to turn my life around so that you and I could be together. It worked for a while, but people have a tendency to fall back into old habits; even when they know that it will ruin what they want the most. I want to be close to you Amy. I would give up anything for that to be true. I’m doing the best I can not going out and partying and things like that, and I’ve even tried having a personal relationship with God. Those things aren’t working out very well and I think that it’s because that you’re not here to help me. You are so important to my life that the thought of me losing you messed me up. I told you that I didn’t want to be your friend because I thought that I would hurt you, and I would rather not be there at all than hurt you. You have other guy friends that you’re close to and you call over and stuff, and I guess I’m just jealous of that. I want you to help me Amy. Because a second before I wrote this, I put down a handgun that would’ve ended my life. I did that because I need help for me to change, and I think that you can help me the most because I’m totally comfortable when I talk to you. Every time that you call and text me, it immediately brightens up my day. I don’t know why, but it just does. I don’t want anything romantic, and I’ve told you that countless times, I just want us to be close.
Yours truly,
Jase Charbonnet
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it's a bit of a stretch, but it's like how English teachers tell you that nothing's arbitrary, and everything has a point. It's sort of symbolic in its own way.
actually who am i kidding; it's a TOTAL stretch, but also kind of cool if you like that sort of thing......
I liked that other letter to "Jane" that you wrote, and I decided (just my opinion) that you should compile a collection of these letters into a book. All three that you've posted on Teen Ink are unique while still about the same person. It really takes talent to write about something different each time you think about one person who clearly means so much to you. You don't really get off-topic like I expected you would (especially in this letter).
(Side note: be sure to consistently use "Jane" and not accidentally "Amy".)
Good luck, Jase.
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