Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken!

What had I on earth to do

With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly?

Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel

—Being—who?

 

Your fake boyfriend, that's who!

 

Maybe don't carry this particular letter around in your purse or show it to the mean girls. Probably you should just toss it.

 

xoxoxo,

Adam (& Robert Browning)

 

 

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