“I trust you know that I miss you, that my concern for you is as wide as the air, my confidence in you as deep as the sea, my love rich and plentiful,” he writes, before signing the note “Love, Barack.” ... “I must admit large dollops of envy for both groups, my American friends consuming their life in the comfortable mainstream, the foreign friends in the international business world,” Obama told McNear. “Caught without a class, a structure, or a tradition to support me, in a sense the choice to take a different path is made for me.
“The only way to assuage my feelings of isolation are to absorb all the traditions, classes, make them mine, me theirs. Taken separately, they’re unacceptable and untenable.” ... 'My Love Is Rich and Plentiful': Barack Obama's Intimate Letters to College Girlfriend Are Made Public | | | | | | | | | | | 'My Love Is Rich and Plentiful': Barack Obama's Intimate Letters to Coll... Nine introspective letters former President Barack Obama wrote to his college girlfriend offer a closer look at ... | | |
