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The unwanted sorority is where black women, fims, and gender expansive survivors of sexual violence,

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In the morning, my angel, my all, myself.

Only a few words today and indeed with pencil, with yours. Only tomorrow is my lodging

positively fixed. What a worthless waste of time on such. Why this deep grief when necessity speaks?

Can our love exist but by sacrifices, by not demanding everything? Can you change it that you not completely mine? I am not

completely yours. Oh God, look upon beautiful nature and calm your soul over what must be.

Love demands everything and completely with good reason. So it is for me with you, for you with me.

This is a translation of the opening of one of the most famous love letters ever written,

which was composed by arguably the most influential romantic composer who ever lived.

You might have heard of him. Ludwig van Beethoven.

Ten small pages hold the trove of passionate and conflicted feelings that he scribbled one summer in old German script, with, as he noted, the very pencil he borrowed from the intended recipient

of his letter. That recipient is addressed later in his emotive outpouring only as his,

quote, immortal beloved. Beethoven wrote his message to his immortal beloved in three parts over two days,

and there seems to be no proof that it was ever actually received.

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