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Simone de Beauvior (1908-1986) French existential writer, novelist, and feminist. In 1947 she met American writer Nelson Algren (1909-1981), in Chicago during a trip to the US. Despite their cultural and philosophical differences, their transatlantic romance was torrid and enduring, lasting for more than seventeen years.
My beloved one, I don't know why I waited so long before saying I loved you. I just wanted to be sure and not to say easy, empty words. But it seems to me now love was there since the beginning. Anyways, now it is here, it is love and my heart aches. I am happy to be so bitterly unhappy because I know you are unhappy, too, and it is sweet to have a part of the same sadness. With you pleasure was love, and now pain is love too. We must know every kind of love. We'll know the joy of meeting again. I want it, I need it, I want it, and I'll get it. Wait for me. I wait for you. I love you more even than I said, more maybe than you know.
written, GeminiSide
