![]() ![]() "Only eight more days," Lorena wrote on December 5, 1933. In another letter, she expresses frustration that she couldn't say " je t'aime et je t'adore" on the phone, because her son Jimmy would have overheard, "but always remember I am saying it and that I go to sleep thinking of you and repeating our little saying." ![]() "Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close," Eleanor wrote on March 7, 1933. Hick burned a packet of Eleanor's letters from the most intense period of their relationship, and many of her own letters were burned by protectors of the Roosevelts, but the surviving 3000 leave little doubt they were lovers. And I thought 'I would really like to tell this love story'." "I thought 'what would it be like, to have been torn out of your own family album? What would it be like to be living at the time your relationship is being erased?' I could hear her. ![]()
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