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Lena Waithe's Love Letter
Lena Waithe warns her younger self that she will hold all women to an unachievable standard throughout her twenties, but that one day she will find the perfect woman who will over her unconditionally.

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00:01Dear Lena, this is your older self talking. I know that's weird but I'm
00:08writing to talk to you about love and real love is something you know very
00:12little about because you never have the joy of receiving unconditional love from
00:16someone you found irresistible and seeing as how you find beautiful women
00:20very irresistible you are in for a world of trouble hurt and pain and you'll
00:25endure a lot of pain and heartbreak it will be a necessary part of your
00:30beautiful journey you will have a lot of fantasies about your dream woman what
00:34she'll sound like look like walk like smell like you will walk around and
00:39think about who she could be for hours you will see a picture-perfect life and
00:44she will be a picture-perfect wife you will spend most of your 20s comparing
00:47most of the women you pursue to this image in your head none of them will
00:52compare to this image this fantasy you've created this will bring you a
00:57great deal of sadness but what I want you to understand is that eventually you
01:02will meet a woman who will fulfill all of your fantasies she will finally love you
01:07unconditionally she will love all of you she will make you feel like your whole
01:10self she will teach you what it feels like to be normal she will never know
01:15what she means to you one day you will write your younger self a letter about her
01:20she is your happy ending she's what you've always wanted she will bring you to
01:26new heights she will teach you how to fly this is your older self talking I'm a
01:34lot wiser than you which means I'm someone worth listening to with love Lena
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