[heartwood]

"I can't help thinking that what he would really want, be powerfully drawn to, was a woman, very strong, very upright, a fighter, a laugher, well-­experienced—a black woman I keep seeing her as," she wrote.

I'd think that was just too, too, flattering to Michelle to be what Cook really wrote at the time, except that it seems odd that she specifies "a woman", as if the other possibility were a possibility.

[butterdezillion]

What woman who’s been dumped (or about to be dumped) because she’s not Black would ever say these things?