an honest-to-goodness, sincere, earnestly meant apology.
Dear Dave,
I know you read what I write, so I thought I'd take the opportunity of giving you a public apology seeing as I can't come up there and do it in person, in front of everybody. This is the best I can do; I hope you find it sufficient.
I'm sorry for what I said. I'm sorry that I went so far off at the deep end on you. I'm sorry that I yelled at you and said stuff that wasn't nice and that I really didn't mean.
You didn't do anything wrong, I did. You are perfectly entitled to have a drink with your friends if you feel like it, without having to listen to me complain and bitch at you for it.
I have no excuses, no explanations for my behaviour. All I have is this apology...and the fact that i honestly, truly love you with everything I have in me.
I'm sorry ,Dave. I'll try not to do it again.
There, I said it.