Letters to Claressa

St. Mary’s Junior Encounter - February 5, 2018 Dearest Claressa, I’ve been trying to write you for over a year.. since you said letters from me could help our relationship. I’ve struggled for several reasons. I still feel grief and anger over the circumstances that hurt our connection, and I haven’t wanted to write while still angry because I haven’t wanted to say anything that was untrue or skewed by that anguish. I’ve spent over a month writing this letter, and cried on several occasions while trying to complete it, making sure it conveys only what is honest and loving.  It’s always been important to me to be honest with you, even when that meant telling you there was no Santa Claus (except that year when you said you wanted me to tell you there was!) In some ways, I have been frozen in time-stuck in places you have likely moved on from.  I recall the night I left home to sleep in the cloffice at Awakenings, how you cried and threw your hands out to me and called out ...