Dear Enchanted April,
I think the stars aligned for us to meet. First, I saw a flier for your play version, and the description sounded so lovely that your title remained on the surface of my mind. I never saw the play, but when I was in a bookstore that month, walking by the clearance wall, what book should be prominently displayed, half-off, but you? It didn't matter to me that you were filled with typos because the sale edition was published by one of those online companies that scans in out-of-copyright books and spits them out without proofreading. It only mattered that I found you.
You embody everything that is good about literature. You are filled with gut-busting comedy. Your main character, Lotty, is my existential hero. You make such prudent observations about people. Your character's lives are all transformed for the better.
I am so thankful that Elizabeth von Arnim wrote you, and that Mike Newell directed a film version of you in the '90s that finally came out on DVD this year. But truth be told, it's the book version of you that I like the best. The actors are great in the movie, but they just don't sound as wonderful as they do in my imagination, when I read your words.
Thank you so much for taking me to the coast of Italy for a month in the 1920s, just by reading your pages. You make me believe in change.
Love,
SewBissy
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