A handwritten letter Apple penned in 2000 to a then 16-year-old high school student, who had asked her to write a note for his school's gay-straight-alliance has gone viral. It's difficult to imagine an artist other than Apple, then 22 and fresh off the release of her second album, "When The Pawn...," writing with such sincerity. "If a good boy loves a good girl, good," she notes. "If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation."
She continues, "A person who loves is a righteous person, and if someone has the ability and desire to show love another — to someone willing to receive it, then for goodness’ sake, let them do it. Hate has no place in the equation; there is no function for it to perform. Love is love, and there will never be too much."
