Story out of Toronto, Ontario:
Spotted around Toronto in a wedding gown and white mask, the woman pens troubled notes about a “prince turned into a monster” and drops them around the cityscape. The letters, dated and addressed “To Whom It May Concern,” seem to revolve around her former partner and “the drugs, the alcohol, the women” he allegedly abused.
“I fear for the other women you will meet in your life…It gives me nightmares,” reads one letter dated July 16 and written in a downtown coffee shop.
The emotional notes — whether earnest or performance art, or both — speak to the complex nature of abusive relationships, with the author admitting she is “still in love” with her ex. The man supposedly runs several restaurants. “He pursued almost every woman in his three restaurants for eight years and I never knew.”
The letters allege worse, accusing the man, whose identity is unclear, of sexual assault and drug-induced rape. The would-be bride’s heart-stricken notes take on a poetic tone at times, alluding to caddish characters out of Jane Austen novels like John Willoughby and George Wickham.
Mike Bates caught her veil from the corner of his eye as he was driving south on Ossington toward Dundas around 12:30 a.m. Monday. “I almost crashed my car when I saw her,” he told the Star.
Eight hours earlier, Jesse Hair watched the blank-faced bride sit down and break out her pen on the Bloor line near Bathurst station. “I might be in an old Dr Who episode,” he tweeted at the time. Cont.
Story from - The Star
Image from - Mandy Peck
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