Dear Desi,
It’s been a while since we last spoke, hasn’t it? I don’t know if you can hear me from wherever you are — but something inside me says you always could. Even when we weren’t talking. Even when we were far apart. Even after all the hurt.
You’ve been gone for some time now. The world keeps turning. People still laugh when they watch I Love Lucy. They still quote your lines. Still admire that dazzling smile, the one that used to stop me in my tracks. Funny how something we created out of love — and sometimes out of pain — has become our eternal legacy.
Desi, I don’t think I ever told you enough how proud I was of you.
You weren’t just my husband or my co-star. You were the man who changed television. You fought for me when no one else would. You believed we could make magic. And we did, didn’t we? Magic in black-and-white that still glows in people’s hearts.
I remember our early days like they happened yesterday. That wild Cuban charm, the way you danced, how you’d whisper “I love you, baby” with that thick accent that always made me melt. Our wedding may have been rushed, a little crazy, and maybe not what people expected. But God, Desi, it was real.
So was our love — messy, loud, impossible, and real.
I know we hurt each other. I know we couldn’t last forever. But you were my great love, Desi. The one who made my heart race. The one who made me believe I was more than just funny — that I was special.
Even after the divorce, I never stopped caring. We still talked. Still laughed. Still raised our children the best way we knew how. And when you were dying, they told me your last words were “I love Lucy.” I carry that like a medal on my chest.
I wish we had more time. More laughs. Fewer regrets.
But maybe that’s not what matters in the end. Maybe what matters is that we loved each other once — wildly, deeply, without apology. And we gave something beautiful to the world.
Thank you, Desi. For every note you played, every scene you lit up, every time you made me feel like I was home.
With all my love, always,
Lucy
