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About This Work
This is a chaptered work told through letters spanning twelve years.
Structure: The story alternates between present-day scenes of Sion reading Daeyoung's letters for the first time, and the letters themselves, which chronicle Daeyoung's silent love from age seventeen to twenty-nine.
Each letter captures a different stage of love—from the first fumbling realization to the quiet certainty of being loved in return. This is a story about patience, devotion, and the courage it takes to speak your truth.
For You, The Reader
May this love find us in the quiet moments— in the coffee shared across a table, in the words we're too afraid to speak, in the letters we write but never send.
May this love remind us that patience is not weakness, that silence can hold devotion, that some feelings are worth preserving, worth documenting, worth keeping.
May this love teach us to be brave— to speak our truths even when our voices shake, to choose vulnerability over safety, to believe that some risks are worth taking.
May this love encompass us the way it encompassed them: wholly, deeply, permanently.
May we all find someone worth writing ninety-one letters for. May we all be someone worth those letters in return.
And may we remember: some loves are built slowly, documented carefully, preserved tenderly.
Those are the loves that last.