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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Was working on the email tonight intending to send an Easter message.

She came out to ask what I was doing, I told her, and she said it was a good idea because it might guilt them into apologizing in turn.

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I said I’m not in it for that - I want to apologize for my behavior.

Then she said she was sure ii would make it something in which I am the victim.

Instead I’m trying to apologize for not being there and including some reminiscing about the good times we used to have.  I am very sappy and it is a little dramatic (apologizing for a list of things I was not there to do, for example) - is ghat bad?  That’s just my personality.  It seems so dry to try and be someone rise.

Also facebook memories are killing me...old spring break photos keep popping up lately and I want to crawl under a rock and die. [/quote]

Seems like a bit much to me.  I would cut out the list of things you missed-makes you sound overly dramatic, and again making it all about you.  Keep it short and simple-let them know you miss them, you are sorry for how you have acted, and when things improve from where we are now with regards to Covid, you'd like to see them.  Tell them you love them.  I get wanting to "be you", but again-you are making it about you, and not them.  [/quote]

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