btw you will miss this in 5 or 10 years. memory will smooth these circumstances down like a river stone, and you will find yourself longing for a shade of light or a moment of this particular innocence. you don't know about what happens next, and one day that will be the most alluring thing of all. don't leave it all for nostalgia. have a nice night now, whatever night it happens to be.

A letter from Marie Antoinette to Axel Von Fersen, dated 4 January 1792, that has been partially redacted.

The redacted portion reads: "I will end (this letter) but not without telling you, my dear and gentle friend, that I love you madly and that there is never a moment in which I do not adore you"

(Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation, French National Museum of Natural History)

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