In The End

Dear Shaun,

          Hi. Before you disappear from my life forever, I just want to say that I understand your position. I'm sorry I'm not the person you wanted me to be. I know though, that you will find someone who is the right kind of perfect for you. I want you to know that I've only kept you a secret because I really cannot do anything about it. I can't. I know you hate that word, but it's no word of a lie... If there was some possibility, some chance, some way that my family could be accepting, I would risk it all, but I know them too well. It wouldn't work.

          I want to thank you for everything we've had together, for every smile, every laugh, every tear. I would never go back and change it. I don't regret us at all. Actually, I don't see how it could've been any different. Thanks for everything you've taught me. Thanks for making me into the person I am now. Thanks for helping me out of that dark time I was in. I will forever take your advice with me. I appreciate the hours you've taken out of your life to visit me and all the money you've spent just to be with me. It means so much. You've honestly made me feel like the most special girl in the entire world.

          I will never have the moments I've shared with you, with anybody else. From that first day at Fairview all the way to packing your car for another goodbye, I will cherish everything, every low, every high. Those times crying together and those times laughing hysterically for no reason... The pictures we've taken, the weird shit we've done, I love it all. The thoughtful gifts you've given me, the joy I had making yours :). The car rides and the breakfast dates... The little quirks, the tickling... The Biodome!! There's just so much. It's been a year filled with memories. Pandy and Angry will forever be a reminder of you. I am so thrilled to have a part of you still with me.

          I could keep going. I want to tell you so much. I want to remind you of all of our good times but, I know I can't. I hope I have somehow taught you something too. I hope you'll look back on our times together in a few years and smile, maybe laugh, but mostly smile. I hope you never meet someone as quirky and weird as me. I hope to see you again someday. Maybe with a wife, maybe with kids, but truly, I'd just like to see you happy. That's all I want you to be. No matter what.

          I love you. I think deep down, somewhere in my heart, I will always. You've impacted me in ways I can't express. I can't tell you how sad I am to see you go, but yet how happy I am to realize how privileged I've been to meet such an amazing guy like you. Really.

Here's to us, an incredible couple. I am crying, yet completely smiling as I type this. I'll miss you.

"Don't be sad that it's over; smile because it happened."

Your dirty hippie,
Stephania