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No tampoco!! debe de haber 1500 cartas comenzadas asi y esta carta no tiene que ser comun porque no està hecha para una persona comun, se me ofenderìa el muchacho si lo tratarìa comunmente, tiene su orgullo tambien, y no sos una persona cualquiera para mi, no puede ser una persona cualquiera alguien a quien amo hace 33 años.

Por eso despues de pensar y pensar se me ocurrio comenzarla asi que se que te va a gustar: A tì, que vives en mi inconsciente, que eres dueño de mi pasado, mi presente y mi futuro.

Todos me dicen como puedes ser tan fan de alguien que no està, ni siquiera viviste su epoca y yo pregunto, hay una epoca para vivir? todos somos vecinos en este mundo por un rato y coincidiste conmigo en este rato, no tal vez en el rato que tendrìa que haber sido, 40 años atras.

A veces me pongo a pensar que cuando hiciste el capitulo "The First Born", yo ni siquiera habia nacido, y ya iba a estar enamorada de ti, suena confuso verdad pero asi era, porque en ese momento vos estabas actuando para alguien que 15 años despues iba a verte, no a mirarte, iba a verte definitivamente y por algo te hicieron actuar ese episodio.

Ya antes de nacer yo ya tenia mi destino preparado, vos estabas preparando mi destino por mi para mi vida no fuera igual 10 años despues de haber nacido.

Y me dicen, hay otros artistas, hay otra vida y yo les digo entre tantas noticias, y tantos habladurias resulta que vos siempre sos lo mas importante. Como voy a olvidarte, si miro la risa de un nene y te veo, veo a un hombre anciano y te encuentro, escucho una cancion y te siento, estàs en cualquier parte que me encuentre y realmente eso me hace sentir que no estoy sola, tal vez en algunos momentos quiero olvidarte pero es tanto lo que digo que tengo que olvidarte que termino recordandote, y me hace sentir que no estoy sola, una vez escuche una frase, que uno no esta donde el cuerpo sino donde mas se extraña y yo a vos te extraño tanto, vivis aca, conmigo, y se que ni vos estas contigo mismo porque te llevo en mi alma.

En lo que vos pedias que te recordemos sin lagrimas estàs pidiendo en definitiva que no te olvidemos, esa fue tu voluntad que no te olvidemos, porque todos y todas decimos, cuando piensen en Mike haganlo sonriendo pero no nos detenemos a pensar que en lo principal que estas pidiendo que te recordemos. Hay una cancion que tambien fue hecha para ti, como vos hiciste el episodio The first born para que yo me enamore 15 años despues, tambien existio una cancion para que 11 años despues yo la convirtiera en tu himno, en mi himno de amor hacia vos y que era.

No te escribo esta carta por un recuerdo, te escribo esta carta por un presente y por un futuro, porque estàs entendes? no te fuiste, yo te llevo en mi como un tatuaje permanente, y es mi tarea y de todos los que te amamos prohibir que te olviden, que olviden a ese muchachito impetuoso llamado Little Joe, a ese padre responsable llamado Charles Ingalls, a ese angel pura bondad llamado Jonathan Smith, a ese hombre que iba a ser un excelente reportero Jeff Hayes y por sobre todo al amor de mi vida, al que hizo mi vida distinta, al que hizo que tuviera una razon para respirar, para amar, para ilusionar, a ese hombre llamado Eugene Orowitz y si volviera a nacer repetiria todo esto una y mil reencarnaciones mas.

Y quiero terminar la carta poniendote esta frase que encontrè como grafity en la playa, te acordas? La lei y seguì caminando y cuando eran casi 10 cuadras que me habia alejado algo me decìa que tenìa que volver y anotarla y si, es asi y llego el momento de escribírtela. Porque en definitiva yo no puedo librarme a lo que te debo como ilusión.

I was thinking on how to write this letter, let’s see…I will start with a Mike,

No, no…Not that way…My very dear Mike,

No! I am sure you got 1500 letters that start like that and this letter can’t be common, the boy might get offended if I treat him like a common person, he has his pride you know. He can’t be a common person when I had loved him for 33 years.

Therefore, after thinking and thinking, I thought that I should start the letter this way and I know you would like it: To you, who lives in my subconscious, to you who owns my past, my present, and my future.

Everybody asks me how can you be so fanatic about someone that did not even live during your times and I say, Is there a period to live? We are all neighbors on this world for a little while and we met each other for a little while. Well, maybe not on the same while because it would have needed to be 40 years ago.

Sometimes I think that when you made “The First Born” episode, I was not even born and I was already going to be in love with you. It sounds confusing, right? But that’s how it was because you were acting for someone that 15 years later was going to see you, so there was a reason why you were in that episode.

Before I was born, you were preparing my destiny so that my life would not be the same 10 years after I was born.

People tell me, “There are other artists, other life.” I tell them that among the news, the talking, you always end up being the most important. How can I forget you? If I see the smile of a child, I see you. If I see the face of an older man, I see you. I hear a song and I feel you. You are in all my living moments. Sometimes I have moments when I want to forget you but I repeat that to myself so many times that it makes me remember you more and when I remember you I feel I am not alone. You are with me because I carry you in my soul.

When you asked us not to remember you with tears, you were asking us not to forget you. That is why we all say that when we think of Mike we need to do it smiling, but we don’t stop to think that the main thing is to remember you. There’s a song that I feel was made for you, just like you made “The First Born” episode so that I could fall in love with you 15 years later, there’s this song that came to be 11 years later so that I could dedicate it to you. It’s my hymn of love to you.

Te Amare

(Song by Miguel Bosé)

With the peace of the mountains, I will love you

With craziness and balance, I will love you

With the anger of my years

Just the way you taught me how to be

With a scream in my flesh, I will love you.

In secret and in silence, I will love you

Risking the forbidden, I will love you

On the truth and the false

With an open heart

Because something is not perfect, I will love you.

I will love you, I will love you

Like it is not permitted

I will love you, I will love you

Like nobody ever knew how to love

Because I decided it, I will love you.

As a way of example, I will tell you

That even if your hands were cold, I will love you

I will love you with your bad grammar and your sore loser attitude

With defects and quirks, I will love you.

I will love you, I will love you

Because you were so important

I will love you, I will love you

When you are not present

My tradition will be to love you.

Each time night comes I will be waiting

For the full moon and I will love you

And even if there’s not much left of what it was

You will remain close and inside my heart, I will love you.

I will love you, I will love you

To the beat of the memories

I will love you, I will love you

To the very last moment

Despite everything, I will love you.

I do not write this letter as a remembrance. I write this letter as a present, as a future, because you are still here, understand? You never left. I carry you with me like a permanent tattoo and it’s my mission and the mission of all those who love you to make sure that nobody forgets that impetuous child called Little Joe, that responsible father named Charles Ingalls, the angel of kindness named Jonathan Smith, the reporter named Jeff Hayes and, more than anyone, that man named Eugene Orowitz who is the love of my life and if I were to be born again, I will love you again.

And I want to finish this letter with a phrase I found at the beach, remember? I was walking on the beach and after I walked like 10 blocks, I came back to write it down because I can’t free myself of my love for you.

With all my love and the love from the beyond,

Maricris R.

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