On Your Wedding Day

Emiliana Helfeld
1 min readDec 17, 2021

To Two Beloved Friends

Sometimes in life you meet someone who is just exquisite. There is just something about them, you want to know them, understand who they are deeply. These people settle into our hearts, and that's why love is so scary. Once someone gets in there, it is agony to get them out. But sometimes love just works, and it’s real. Its this delicious kind of love that grows and grows. We grow and change, and this exquisite thing helps us become more at home within ourselves. Someone who sees us, loves who we are, without conditions. And we think, “who could love a messy thing like me?” But then this love helps us see ourselves too, how truly wonderful we are. So I think its important to indulge in this love, indulge in life, and in everything this world has to offer. Grotesque pain, insane pleasure. Let’s feel it all. Life is a story. You are writing a prolific one together.

Here is to all the adventures to come.

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Emiliana Helfeld

Author of "Parade", a work of magical realism that explores sex work & feminism.