Dear Jane Austen

Hey,

How's it going. I finally saw your movie the other day (even though i've had it since my birthday) and i just have one small question...

WHAT THE F*CK WERE YOU THINKING?

I admit i have said some negative things about you in the past, and i still cannot get through one of your books without wanting to kill myself...but come on.

I do not understand how you can give up the love of your life simply because his family may or may not have dependended on the money he recieved from an Uncle who was not too fond of you or your prospects and who would disowned Tom if he was to marry you.

I know, the real Tom LeFroy probably looked nothing like the wonderful James McAvoy, but the moment Jame--I mean Tom said "runaway with me" I would have done it. I would have ran so far away without a second guess.

It's love Jane. Pure, unadulterated love, and we don't come across those everyday. We don't find a love who challenges our talents while nourishing our nature. A love who looks at you with stricking and beautiful blue eyes and says that "he is yours". Your's Jane.

So you have your family to think about, and he has his....but I've would have run. For a day. For a week. Maybe a month . Or a lifetime. Just so i could live in complete splendor with someone i love and who loves back just as much.

We are much more alike than i would like to admit. We are bound to our families with a loyalty that sacrifices our own happiness sometimes, we are struggling to define our work with honest characters and sentiments, and we are constantly defying our roles and trying to be who we are in a world to harsh for our own good.

And that's why your situation so shittastic and yet so relatable.

I guess that is why i wanted you and Tom to end up together. Because if you can find love being who you are and not who someone wants you to be, than i can too. Even if that means that i wouldn't have grown up hating your books to no end. Even if the world wouldn't have characters like Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth to fall in love with. Even if we didn't have cool adaptations of your movies that i love much more than reading your books. At least you would have Tom.

Maybe happy endings can't occur, but i just wanted you to know that i was rooting for you.

I'll even re-read pride and prejudice, because i feel your pain.

Sincerely,

~Becks