dear t - i didn't cry yesterday because of what i was feeling. i cried because inside me is still that little girl that knows having feelings gets her yelled at and ridiculed and she was expecting that naturally. she still doesn't know that you are not like them. i'll never be able to explain to you how profoundly healing it was for me when, through my tears, I said "now what?!" and you replied "we sit with our feelings." You gave me permission to have those feelings. And more than that, you showed RESPECT for those feelings. And you didn't try to dissect them or try to make me talk about them. You just made it ok for me to feel them. Have I told you lately that I love you? Me.