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my dear, darling corey,

look how far we’ve traveled together during this trip around the sun, moving so easily from strangers to acquaintances to Just Friends to best friends and finally to lovers. some days i wake up and still feel like all of this has been a wonderful dream. how is it that two broken people can be made to fit so perfectly? how is it that i was always moving towards you, and you towards me, without even realizing it? how sweet of the universe to give us this rare, beautiful love, to allow us to find one another in this life and every one before.

corey, you are my love, my light, my protector, my secret keeper, the first hand i reach for, and the king of my heart. i’ve never met anyone with a soul as thoughtful, patient, generous, kind, and understanding as yours. you are soft, warm sunshine, and i’m so proud to know you and love you and be yours for eternity. you are everything i ever wished for and never thought i deserved.

thank you for making your heart my home, for saying my name like it’s the sweetest word, for loving every ugly piece of me rather than trying to fix me, for allowing me to be my own person without possessiveness or jealousy, for guessing three guesses even when it’s annoying, for always answering when i call out to you in the darkness, for choosing us each day, without fail.