Dear John, Letters from a Friend: Conversation One in a Series

The first conversation begins with the first letter.  Written to my old boyfriend, but more importantly, written to my old friend.  

We are quite different, Evan and I.  I suppose we always have been quite different, but it remains as true now as it did then that he means a great deal to me.  Evan has always, and I predict will always, keep me accountable to my actions.  He does not mind never letting me off the hook.  He does not mind telling me so.  

The first letter, as written to Evan, admits my Chameleonism.  It addresses our differences, it discusses our sensibilities, it celebrates our relationship.   It commemorates our past, challenges our future.  It shares a part of me with someone who was responsible for shaping a part of me. 

So was sent my first letter to a friend, and the beginning of the breakdown of self-made barricades.  And so begins what I hope to be the first conversation of many throughout the Dear John, Letters from a Friend experiment.  

Already shared with Evan, I now share it with you.