"Dear Maria,
Thank you so much for inviting me to write for your book. Your project is so personal, and so private, and I do not even know you.
If I feel I can contribute, it’s because a color diary isn’t an ordinary diary. It keeps part of its privacy forever, because you are the only one who can know, in any full sense, what each color means. At the same time, a color diary also expresses the idea of intimate meaning, and so it invites people to think about intimacy even if they end up thinking different thoughts..."
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