my faraway one

i found this picture on one of my favorite websites today.  

it's of georgia o'keeffe and her lover, alfred stieglitz.

for thirty years, they wrote almost 25,000 pages of letters to each other.

i swoon over this stuff. 

with statements like the ones below, how could i not?

"i'm getting to like you so tremendously that it sometimes scares me.  having told you so much of me--more than anyone else i know--could anything else follow but that i should want you?" (o'keeffe)

"all i want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us." (steiglitz)