Copying the poems and letters Kathy wrote me in 1979 and 1980, I realized just how strongly she loved me. We were both blind with lovers and goals and passion, then. She was so much like me in female form that I could never trust her completely. Now the years have passed and our paths have crossed again and, reading these things here, I see what kin and love were there. My fantasies run now; her and Rose, how...how can they both be in my life? I want to say, 'Kathy, come, I see now what you were, I should not have let you go...' But my family comes before my eyes. Love is joy and agony, both. If I could have it as I wish I'd have them both...in two houses or one. I can love two, it's never been at doubt but...could such a thing work.... gallagher 19 mar 85
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