Please believe me when I write that nothing I hear of what your father has done, from you or from anyone else, can change my opinion of you based on the things that you have done. You are your own man, and I think are like always to have been and to be. In the same breath I assure you that I neither anticipate you to exchange one cruelty for another, namely, severing yourself from your family. We have grown so used to attitudes about blood that have as much to do with magic as they do with biology, and I find in this I prefer a Muggle attitude. We are pieced and made whole from the bodies of our mothers and fathers, raised in hope and likeness and, even in seeming misguided cases, love. Loyalty to one's family could never for me be something to admonish, even if the attitudes and traditions were not in accord with my own.
I hope I have not made you think otherwise.
What I wish is to carry our friendship off of the page. I would like very much to see your house if you regard it as yours, and as I am eighteen and a woman, feel entirely within my right to determine what is gentlemanly and ungentlemanly.
Let us look at Vega, side by side?
I am writing you but a moment before I kiss Ammamma on both cheeks and bid her a tearful farewell. My next from Berlin.
p.p.
15 November 1998
Theodore,
Please believe me when I write that nothing I hear of what your father has done, from you or from anyone else, can change my opinion of you based on the things that you have done. You are your own man, and I think are like always to have been and to be. In the same breath I assure you that I neither anticipate you to exchange one cruelty for another, namely, severing yourself from your family. We have grown so used to attitudes about blood that have as much to do with magic as they do with biology, and I find in this I prefer a Muggle attitude. We are pieced and made whole from the bodies of our mothers and fathers, raised in hope and likeness and, even in seeming misguided cases, love. Loyalty to one's family could never for me be something to admonish, even if the attitudes and traditions were not in accord with my own.
I hope I have not made you think otherwise.
What I wish is to carry our friendship off of the page. I would like very much to see your house if you regard it as yours, and as I am eighteen and a woman, feel entirely within my right to determine what is gentlemanly and ungentlemanly.
Let us look at Vega, side by side?
I am writing you but a moment before I kiss Ammamma on both cheeks and bid her a tearful farewell. My next from Berlin.