Example opening
Adrian,
I miss you in small ways, all the time.
Not only in the dramatic moments. Not only when things are quiet. I miss you in the ordinary spaces of the day.
I miss the way I would think of something small and immediately want to tell you. I miss the familiarity of your voice. I miss the little rhythm of having you somewhere inside my day, even when nothing important was happening.
What surprises me most is how often it is the smallest details that come back first: a phrase you say, a kind of pause, the way a moment feels different because I can imagine your reaction to it.
I wanted to say this simply, without making it heavier than it needs to be: your absence is felt here in real ways, and so is your presence, somehow, in memory.
I miss you, and I think of you more often than I know how to put into words.
Clara