Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I’d dated before. And when we were together, you listened in a way that made me feel like I was the only woman in the world. You made me feel complete and spending time with you just seemed right.

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

But most of all, I learned that it’s possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there’s been a lifetime of disappointment between them.

I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.