Dear Jon,

I hope this letter finds you well.  I’m just writing to tell you thank you for being such a great influence in my life. Yes, even now, so many years later you are….well, Now. Now finds me living happily in New York working for a start-up and enjoying my life.  I think of you often and remember your cologne (the feeling–not the name or smell). You smelled like: Daddy, brother, friend, lover–you were a combination I have always cherished in a man.

I hear you are teacher now. You always were. I’ve brought you into the present because I there is more of you that I want to share with me and I find the past is so not now and now is where I am.  I’m wondering how you are.