Letter to Hillary

Dear Hillary,

I thought about addressing this to Secretary Clinton or Senator Clinton but each of those titles only represent a small part of your public service. I thought about addressing this to Former First Lady Clinton but that reduces you to nothing more than the wife of someone and no one could accuse you of only being that. So I settled on the all-encompassing Hillary.

The anger, disappointment, and betrayal that I feel at not being able to address you as President Clinton is something that hasn’t faded since November 9th and I doubt it ever will.

But let the record show I am so incredibly proud of having been able to vote for you. I’m proud of being able to encourage others to vote for you.

And since the election, I’m proud of having not been wrong about you. 

You have handled everything with grace, dignity, and hope that have given all of us who believe in you the same.

While nothing I can say will make up for the disappointment you must feel at being robbed of a presidency due to an outdated voting system that somehow allows the voices of a nearly 3 million strong majority to be invalidated, I hope the voice of one person can provide you the grace, dignity and hope you’ve provided to so many.

For everything you’ve done for me as an American, as a woman, and as a human: thank you.

I was with her. I’m still with her. I’ll always be with her.