An All-Purpose Love Letter

Sara Benincasa
7 min readFeb 20, 2024
“The Love Letter” by Jean Honore Fragonard, depicting a young woman at her writing table looking up at the viewer while holding a letter

I wanted to write you an all-purpose love letter, because I love you and I thought you should know it. It is also for you to send to a friend or other loved one, but we will get to that.

Let’s first focus on the idea that I love you.

I promise I haven’t gone totally mad with delusion. I promise I don’t need or even necessarily WANT to talk to you in person, much less write you shitty poetry…

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Sara Benincasa

Author, REAL ARTISTS HAVE DAY JOBS & other books. Writer of scripts. Host of WELL, THIS ISN’T NORMAL podcast. Patreon.com/SaraBenincasa