an open letter to kevin arnold

dear kevin arnold,

remember when you took off your jacket and put it over winnie cooper's shoulders? right after her brother's funeral and you were sitting on that rock? that was the first moment when i knew i loved you. and then there was that time when you rode furiously to winnie's house on your bike with the U-shaped handlebars and you waited and waited outside her house until she came but she didn't want to see you and you did not accept that. so you climbed up onto her roof and that great song played with the dark falling all around and you whispered "i love you" through the window and she said it back--that melted my cold, cold heart faster than a fudgesicle on hot asphalt. these were important moments, beautiful moments, so important that even a decade later when i watch these clips with patricia we feel our hearts jump and it makes us glad and nostalgic all at once. and it is good.

xo,
amy

[0:22-0:55 is perhaps the most amazing 30 seconds of TV from my youth]