June 23, 1971: “Your Voice After Two Weeks”
Send us a text It’s June 23, 1971 — and after more than two weeks of missed connections and shutdown phone lines, the call finally goes through. Sarah hears Dick’s voice, and everything rushes in at once: the relief, the longing, the ache of being apart for so long. She writes this letter just after they hang up, still feeling the high of being close to him again — and the emptiness that comes right after. She talks about how much she misses him, how proud she is of the letters he writes,...
It’s June 23, 1971 — and after more than two weeks of missed connections and shutdown phone lines, the call finally goes through.
Sarah hears Dick’s voice, and everything rushes in at once: the relief, the longing, the ache of being apart for so long. She writes this letter just after they hang up, still feeling the high of being close to him again — and the emptiness that comes right after.
She talks about how much she misses him, how proud she is of the letters he writes, and how she’s barely making it through her shifts while pregnant and exhausted. She’s counting down her last working days, and finally getting help in the OR — but it’s still hard to get out of bed.
The letter is warm, funny, and full of love — from her queasy mornings to her favorite word for sleep (seepy) to the way she signs off: “Be sweet — keep loving, and soon we’ll be loving, fucking, and sucking.”
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