AN: This is one that's kinda rainbow-y for me, happy and sad, I mean. It's from Robert, who lives in a small town in Texas, and it's a fan letter to Pete Santangelo of The Flower Series. So, in a way, he knows Pete will never return his feelings, because they can never meet, but there's a deeper meaning to Robert's feelings, and why he needs to keep them hidden, and why he would love to meet Pete...

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Dear Pete,

You don't know me, and, sadly, I don't think that will ever change. I know you, though. Pretty well, I think. My name is Robert, though most people call me Robby. I 'm a junior in high school in Texas, and I hate it here. I have a big brother, Kevin, who's a freshman in college. He plays football, which means he's very popular.

He did everything he's should do, and he's everything he's should be. He played pee-wee football, then juniors, then high school. He got recruited for varsity when he was a freshman because of his size, and played varsity all four years, and he started for three of those years.

Me on the other hand, I've always been kind of undersized, and the thought of playing football, well, let's just say that me and contact sports never mixed, you know? I play guitar, just like you, and I write songs. I think you're amazing, and I can tell from your songs that you'd just get me, you'd understand me.

I love you, Pete, I'm so in love with you it just hurts. You were who made it possible to admit to myself that I was gay. I can't ever tell anyone around here that I'm into guys. Never. Maybe if I lived in a bigger town. Like Dallas? Or at least a more progressive town, like Austin. I don't know.

I have to be really careful around here, you know? I write songs, and some of them are really romantic, like yours, and I have to make sure to write "she" and "her," when I want to say "he," or I want to describe how some guy looks, but I can't.

I can tell, though, that, even though you're straight, you'd get me, and I know that you wouldn't mind that I'm in love with you, even though I'm a guy. I've heard you say in interviews, and even at your concerts, that love has no gender, and it exists for itself, in pure form, like a beautiful flower, which I think is a very poetic way to put it.

I fee like if I could just see you, like just for a minute, just touch you, hug you, you know? Maybe my life wouldn't feel so lonely, so empty.

I have to walk over this bridge every day on my way home from school, a really high one, over a river, and I always make sure to listen to your song, "Love Will Pull You Through," when I cross it, just to give me strength to keep on walking, you know? I hope you don't mind me telling you that, Pete. I just wanted you to know that you've helped me, that you help me, every day.

I'm going to get out of here, and go to New York, like you. I've applied to NYU, and I think I'll get in. I can do it.

You make me strong, Pete.

Love, Robert