I am young and strong, and love is my native language. Try not to lean on me, but don't hide your need from me. It's not necessary that you think I can fill that need. I just want to know it, and if I can create a way to fill it, I will. But it's more important to me that I KNOW you and know you well. Because I love you. I see you as valuable. If you were tragically killed tomorrow I would want to communicate to people what you were like, what you loved, how you saw the world. Some aspects of that I could do, but perhaps not with your style. I want to know your style enough to be able to throw a party which would make you feel comfortable and happy. I want to be able to surprise you with something that inflates your soul, makes you feel good, and makes you feel you, and the best kind of you. Consider me, your loving friend, a repository for your character. I want you to be you all the time and freely, when in my presence, so that you will make the most accurate and permanent possible impression on this world, thereby blessing the world with your beauty forever. I want to really know you, my friend, like you know yourself. And I will joy in being able to beam yourself back at you, by selecting gifts for you, or doing things for you, or saying things to you, which are just right for just you. And don't worry, this will not change my own character. As long as you allow me to stand on my own, I will still be me. I will paint my own life on others' canvases. But for you, my canvas is open and ready, and I say give me your brightest colors, your darkest blacks, spare not depth of color in making your self plain to me. My heart is your studio. Make me a show.

Guy, May 2000