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Selected Writings & Artwork by Harriett Copeland Lillard
Selected Writings & Artwork by Harriett Copeland Lillard
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Dear FS,<br />
November 1988<br />
Ft. Worth, TX<br />
How are you? I haven’t heard from you in such a long time. I<br />
hardly remember how you looked or felt or spoke. It seems<br />
that we have been playing hide-and-seek these last few years.<br />
Once, a long time ago, I thought I had embraced you, but the<br />
embrace was only an illusion – a bittersweet breath of<br />
freedom!<br />
For a time after, you talked through my pen, writing long<br />
letters and poems and stories – things about lonely little girls<br />
and purple thistles and white cats and spilt milk. You gave me<br />
beautiful words, and I, fool that I am, believed that you were<br />
part of me, that those bright mind images would always light<br />
my path. Not so, for one day the light went out and you were<br />
gone.<br />
You were the part of me that was truly ME. If I pursue you, I<br />
fear that I will lose all that I cherish in this world. If I don’t, I<br />
fear that I will lose the best of myself. Is there no compromise,<br />
no middle ground, no way to negotiate a settlement?<br />
Maybe we can get together for lunch. I want you to come back<br />
for a visit if possible – or maybe I can come to you.<br />
I love you,<br />
Harriett Lillard<br />
Letter to my free spirit<br />
˜<br />
Harriett, 1986<br />
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