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Susan Grimshaw x GN!Reader in: Always Yours

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I never expected you to take on such a fundamental roll in my life, and I certainly wasn’t ready for all that you entail. You’ve awakened parts of me that I’d thought long since atrophied, and the feeling is… indescribable, you are indescribable.

Your love is one she never expected to have…

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To my dear one,

Though I know it may not seem like it, I’m actually a woman of few words. Unfortunately the questionable company we keep so enjoys pretending to be hard of hearing, so I find myself in the frustrating position of having to repeat things more often than not; if not for that I would say what needs saying and be done with it. It’s not like there’s much in this life of mine that’s worth waxing poetic over anyway—well aside from you, that is.

I won’t lie to you, honey, love is one of those things I’d given up on. My reasons for this weren’t cynical, however, but rather sentimental. I’d experienced it in several forms throughout the years, with the culmination of it all being with the one I lost before his time. By then I had loved and been loved in fullness and in truth, and though I could have stood to have held on to it for many years yet I learned to be content with what I had. It’s not as if I were alone, after all. I had—have—well over a dozen children, grown though they appear to be, to look after and they keep both my heart and hands full. I found my fulfillment in helping them along and watching them work at building lives and relationships of their own. It was a fine trade-off, all things considered, as they got up to more than enough to make living vicariously through them an interesting experience.

I had my love, my family and my friends, but the universe had one last surprise in store for me it seems.

I never expected you to take on such a fundamental roll in my life, and I certainly wasn’t ready for all that you entail. You’re so much in some ways (but never too much, don’t you worry yourself about that), and in others you can be a shrinking violet. It’s an odd, but beautiful dichotomy that you hold within yourself, my dear, and I can’t help but to love you all the more for it. You’ve awakened parts of me that I’d thought long since atrophied, and the feeling is… indescribable, you are indescribable.

____, you are one of the loveliest, most kind-hearted people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing, and I’m so glad that you’ve allowed me to share this love with you.

Now that you’ve taken your place in my life I’m not entirely sure that I could ever go back to the way things were before. I suppose it’s a good thing then that I’ll never have to.

Always yours, Susan

P.S.: I got so caught up in things that I nearly forgot what this letter what supposed to be about. Happy Valentine’s Day, my dear! I know you said you wanted to spoil me for a change—and the sentiment is very much appreciated, truly—but that didn’t stop me from getting you a gift. I can’t wait to see the look on your face when you open it, it’s sure to be amusing if nothing else. Bet that’s left you curious, but you’ll just have to wait until we get to the gift-giving portion of whatever it is you have planned.

(Though if you’re sweet enough I could possibly be convinced to give it to you sooner…) 

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