A letter to Leslie Cheung, on his birthday

My dearest Leslie,

How to express the love I feel for you and for the family I have made through you, a family that is spread out over the entire world? We are inspired by your love for us and by our love for you. What magic have you worked here on this earth? Who were you, really? Why is your presence now even stronger and more pervasive than when you were alive? How can you continue to touch lives and bring so much beauty and tender emotion to this world years after you surrendered your physical form? Truly, there is something very rare and special about you Leslie, and you have touched my life in ways that are now beyond counting. You have made it so easy for me to love you.

Take this love that I offer you and do with it what you will.

Marie