No Distance Too Great for Love

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It's amazing how in love I am. I can't believe that it's happening to me ... I can't believe that someone could love me as much as my sweetheart, J, does. God has truly blessed me with a wonderful man ...I met J in high school. He liked me then, but I had feelings for someone else. When I graduated from high school, I wasn't on the best terms with J ... we'd had a fight about a letter that he'd had someone write to me. Two years passed and during that time we only talked to each other once.

Suddenly, in June of 2001, J called me out of the blue. A mutual friend had told him that I was home from college for the summer. I was absolutley thrilled to hear from him. I had missed being his friend; he's so easy to talk to. I love talking to J. It seemed as if he just couldn't catch me at the right time: it was two years later, and I still had feelings for someone else [a different someone else, but still someone else] ...J slowly won my heart over the course of that summer ... I was determined to fight this with everything I had ... I didn't want to be in love with him and I didn't want him to be in love with me.

People get hurt that way, you understand. I was so afraid of getting hurt, or, worse yet, of J getting hurt. He helped me see that sometimes you just have to take risks. He made me see what we could have if I just took a chance and let myself love him.In mid-July, I went on vacation for a week. The night before I left, I wanted so badly to tell him that I loved him, but I was afraid ... I didn't want to give him a power over me that he didn't already have and I didn't want our friendship to change, to be ruined. Instead of me saying that I loved him, we told each other that we would miss each other while we were apart. We had stayed up the whole night, talking on the phone, so by the time we said goodbye, it was time for my family and me to leave.

J called me the day I got back from vacation, and told me he had something to give me. He came over to the house and gave me a letter that he had written while I was away. He handed me the letter and then went to work. I went inside and sat on the couch and read the one and only love letter I had ever received in my life. It was beautiful, full of memories of the past four weeks and reasons why he cared about me ... Earlier in the summer, J told me that he'd been hurt by some evil, demonic girl [ok, so that's my description of her] and that he'd never again say "I love you" first ... but at the end of his letter, there were the words: "I love you" ... I was in shock.J went on vacation with his family the next week and I missed him terribly. The night he came back, we shared our very romantic first kiss: I told J I wanted to use his chapstick and he jokingly told me that he didn't know where my lips had been. Then I said "So I could never kiss you then" and J got really quiet. I knew he wanted to kiss me and finally I gave him a "What are you waiting for?" look ... and he leaned in and gave me a peck on the lips. We waited a few seconds and then J gave me the sweetest kiss in the history of kissing.

We've been kissing since that day.A couple of days later, J came over to my house and we sat outside in the coolness of a summer night. We saw a shooting star at the exact same moment and continued to watch the stars until the sun started to come up! We saw FIFTEEN shooting stars that night! It was that night that I realized that we were meant to be together ... the fifteen shooting stars were like fifteen messages from God that He was giving me this wonderful gift ... this wonderful man to share my life with. I had asked God to send someone to love me and that night, I suddenly understood that J was the one God had given me ... J was the answer to all those tearful prayers ...Where does the long distance come in, you ask? I'm getting there ... I am in my third year of college and the college I attend is about 1.5 hours away from my hometown, which is where J lives ... We see each other about 2 or 3 times a month ... It's not enough, but the time that we do spend together is so precious ... Most 20-year-olds get to see their boyfriends or girlfriends any time they want, but J and I have to settle for whatever scarce moments we can manage ...Distance has so much potential to ruin relationships, to tear people apart ... but our relationship only gets better with every passing day ...

J and I are so in love with each other and the distance only makes us appreciate each other more; it only strengthens our love. He is the most wonderful man I have ever known ... the way he knows my soul ... he knows my thoughts ... my wants and needs ...he knows everything. He is so thoughtful and kind; his heart is so good that it brings tears to my eyes. He gives me strength to do anything and everything I want or need to do ... He is my encouragement and reassurance. J is the reason my heart beats; I fully believe we were put here, on this earth, to be together. It's been hard to be apart at times, but I know that our love will see us through this until we can be together the way we want to be. We love each other so much more than most people get to experience. Distance is nothing for us; together, we can conquer anything ... because our love is just that strong.

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