I agree! I read the “love letter”. If this is a “love letter” then he is gay. There is NOTHING romantic much less personal in this letter. It comes off as a pathetic attemp to try and extablish there were some “girlfriends” out there. Here are the really juicy parts (since they printed thi, I’m assuming this is the best of the sweet talk)
“Remember how I said there’s a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism — [T.S.] Eliot is of this type,” Obama wrote in one letter to McNear. “Of course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it’s due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance. And this fatalism is born out of the relation between fertility and death, which I touched on in my last letter — life feeds on itself. A fatalism I share with the western tradition at times. You seem surprised at Eliot’s irreconcilable ambivalence; don’t you share this ambivalence yourself, Alex?”
I can’t tell you how much I want my husband to speak of “fatalism” ... especially on Valentines day.
Sorry about the spelling (or lack thereof). When I type too fast it really shows!