Waiting for my lover | Tennessee Williams, 1943

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Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), Self-portrait, undated 
(Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin.)

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“I am sitting at my kitchen table waiting for my lover to arrive with lettuce and tomatoes
and rum and sherry wine and a big floury loaf of bread in the fading sunlight. Coffee is
percolating gently, and my mood is mellow. I have been very happy lately, just wallowing
in it selfishly, knowing it will not last very long, which is all the more reason to enjoy it now.”

 Tennessee Williams, from a letter to Donald Windham wr. c. July 1943

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Tennessee Williams (right) and his lover Donald Windham, New York, 1945
 photographed by George Platt Lynes

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