Dearest Catherine, When you first came into my life, I felt I'd been born into a new world, a world I had only read about in books, one that only lived in my imagination. For a moment I believed in that world, in all its possibilities; a door had opened where none existed. All of this came through you. So many new feelings that were once only words now rush through me. I cannot yet describe them. All at once, they startle me, sometimes frighten me, but always fill me with wonder and gratitude. But how can such happiness bring me such pain? How could I have forgotten that, though the door had o
