Womenly Wiles

I like alliteration - you know this - but this is for the darling, helpful and marvelous women of my life:

Aid - I was telling Twin a few nights ago how truly lucky I feel to have met you. Your knowledge and comforting words have really been a marvelous place to curl up in and hide myself in when I am feeling my ugliest. You have truly shown me strength that I didn't know I had and have given me access to one more small piece of myself.... This piece of me that allows me to realize what it is that I need, and ask for it without feeling selfish or out-of-line. I think you are marvelous and I can't express to you how much I enjoy and have grown to love you and your company.

Twin - I hope that you are enjoying the multi-cd playlist I constructed for you. I gave you some of myself in those pieces of music. ---- I realize more than ever that you are not my twin, but our souls are definitely cut from the same cloth. How interesting that it started with us just saying the same words at the same time and now has turned into a truly lovely and enriching relationship.

Truly, the three of us are all similar, but different people. I do feel like the weakest link when I am with you, the least developed and most emotionally juvenile, but I never feel like I am out of place or that I am seen in any sort of inferior light. We are stones sharpening each other, sharing through our life experience what it is we've learned. - I hope that I have something of value to offer you one day to repay the debt I owe to you both.

Eesh - Thank you for your constant support and love, I could not be where I am without you. Thank you for always bringing me laughter when I am stuck in my usual rut, providing unique and unapologetic advice and never failing to always be yourself with me without question.

Peach - We're going to a) have to work on a name for you, should you not like this one, but b) and more importantly: I love you and all that you are, I believe in you and think that this hiccup, is just that, a momentary, passing event that will resolve and whatever the outcome you will be better for it. I miss you terribly and really wish that I too was in ATL just to be close to you.

Mom - I love and admire you despite our differences. You have sacrificed for my every need and want and I cannot say how very special I feel. I am truly honored to be your son and I hope that I make you proud. You are the living Julia Sugarbaker that I get my fire and passion from, sweet and nurturing heart, work ethic, and everything else in-between. I am truly my mother's son and I would never change that.


Thank you for the strength you give me, the problems you have helped me to solve and most of all for being strong women of character and conviction. Bless you for all the things you have do and will do in your lifetime.

Love to each of you
-AA