FROM LOLA, WITH LOVE

I have been advised to “get out ahead of this”. They want to hear my version of the truth before the mythologization. But I wouldn’t mind if what started as a fairytale ends as a fairytale. It could have ended back in Oregon, or even back home. I would like there to be a happy ending, even if everyone thinks there’s no hope for me. But the truth will come out whether I’m there or not. So I’d like for us to be viewed kindly. I want to intercede on behalf of my friends, my father, and myself. Everyone did the best they could with what they were given. They all treated me with the love they knew how to give and I will never fault them for that. At their cruelest, they still acted in the interests of the world. All I have done and all that I will do is for its protection and betterment. The reader may criticize us, for good reasons. All I ask is that you do not read malice in anyone’s actions. Everything I have ever done, I have done out of love. I hope that comes through no matter which form I take.