beautiful images
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Wistful remembrances of summer loveTRANSCRIPT
Beautiful Images.
As I scan postcards and letters
from friends and lovers from
more than 20 years ago, the
notes and messages have the
same fresh intensity as when
they were written.
This one’s from beautiful Chris
who had a crush on me. I had
a crush on him too. Where is
he now? I slept with him even
though I had a boyfriend back
in Boston. He had a hand-
some face, chocolate brown
hair, and the solid boyish body
of youth. We spent the night
together at his college friend’s
house in Bloomington, Indiana.
I didn’t want my friends to
know that I was cheating. We
were quite nonchalant the next
morning.
Later, I wrote him and he wrote
me back. His message was so
flirtatious. He was living in New
York and had a summer intern-
ship. The image on the front of
the postcard was Blondie and
on the back, in his miniscule
– almost calligraphic – hand-
writing, he wrote in the margin,
“The one, the only, Queen of
NYC” (meaning Blondie, of
course). He gave me his ad-
dress in New York, but I never
wrote him back.
James O’Day
1.15.2010