Dear Hadley: A Love Letter
Dear Hadley,
My sister can't understand my attachment to you. She rolled her eyes when I added a “Welcome to Hadley” sticker to a recent online order. I don't entirely understand it myself. You are, like many small towns, a bit insular, a bit incestuous, and, like so many small New England towns in particular, anachronistic and resistant to change. You were not always a happy place for me- our family never quite fit, I know. I could write this letter to the whole of my darling Valley, and it would not be any less true, and perhaps filled with an even greater love. But for so many years, you were home base. Love comes when there is time and space for roots to grow, and that is what you gave me.