To My Dearest Girl:

Most darling of Roommates,
I am so, so happy for you! I feel so hackneyed in talking like this, but sometimes, I suppose it's the best you can do.
Soon, I think I will have no right to call you mine, because soon, altho the words have not yet been spoken, it will be time to relinquish claims that have truly belonged to someone else for a long while. And, yes, it makes me sad. And yet, I am so happy for you!!! So happy for you and him! How can I be sad, and yet so, so very happy at the same time?? Honestly, I never thougth I could feel so unequivocably happy for anyone as I do for the two of you now.
I am so proud of you, my brave girl! You are truly facing up to what this impending decision means in your life, in a way I think few people around us have. Most profoud of all, tonight, you talked about how you feared that if you truly stepped out and married him, somehow he would discover the truth about you, and what an awful person you really are, and not love you anymore. That is the great risk in love, my dear, the great fear in relationship, and when you voiced it tonight, you hit the nail on the head. I am so proud of you for looking that fear squarely in the face! I can well imagine the scariness of such a step in faith. But, as I told you this evening, this is your chance to experience Grace. I truly believe the sacrament of marriage will bring you Grace, my darling.
My dear girl, I will be sorry to lose you. But, as I am beginning to realize, altho our relationship may grow and change, I will never lose you, ever. You and Michael are friends I will have Forever, yes, literally, FOREVER. I don't know if I ever believed that could happen to me, but now here it is, and here you are. And it is a privaledged, to love and to be so loved.
Grace and Peace to you, darling girl!