when I was a kid…

January 26, 2005 - 2:49 a.m.

Dear Texas,

I’ve never seen you. I haven’t met you or spent one day in your presence.

Then how can I miss you?

Who are you and why do I think that I need you? You’re nothing to me…

And everything all at the same time.

Wait for me. Please.
Wait for me and one day, I swear it, I’ll come to visit you. Somehow I’ll find the nerve to break away from everything familiar, stop clinging to this life, and make a new one. With you. How does that sound?

Yours forever,

A girl.