DEAREST DAUGHTER: #1YR & 3 DAYS, BY @TRENORA
My Sweet Daughter:
Sarah & Nora, Together in Iran
As I take up my pen to write you today, I am overcome with strong feelings of love for you. Since you have been arrested this intense love I feel has grown stronger, even more intense and all consuming. On days like this I feel like I have been split in two and the two parts cannot be put together until you are home.
I struggle with the right words to tell you; I struggle with the way to best say it to you and wish I could be more articulate, my words could say more. words cannot always say more, they cannot say everything and I am left without means to tell you. I could tell you in an embrace, I could tell you with my eyes but this I cannot do. So I try in the clumsiness of words to tell you what my heart is crying out to say. You are to me such a woman of courage, such a woman of strength.
I know you look at your captors square in the face and are not bowed. I know you feel the courage of your years standing up for the injustices of people everywhere. Right now I feel a part of a circle fo women everywhere: mothers, daughters, grandmothers, sisters, wives whose hearts break for those they love; who would do anything humanly possible to end their sadness, to ease their suffering.
I know that as you face each day alone in your cell not knowing when it will end, not knowing the world’s thoughts, you must use that store of courage and strength and give some back to yourself for renewal. my hope is that you can call on all your memories of good times spent and always know that love is pouring into your cell from the millions who now know you and care greatly about you.
All my love and more, Mom
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