Dear Friend,

I’m choosing to address you as a friend as a friend because my hope is that only a friend would be reading this. If you are my friend you know I’ve been writing for a while, and I have been reading for even longer. You might already read this all before…

“You’re a preserver. You like to linger on things, to persevere them.” my friend tells me. This, of course, does not come without its faults but it does allow me the ability to remember it all quite vividly most days.

I have just woken up, It’s Sunday. I look over to the collection of fortunes from the cookies of inauthentic takeout Chinese that I have gathered over the last ten years of my life. I pick up the coins on my window sill and search for the one with the Yellow Allamanda flower and the other with the Sawfish engraved.