solid effort.

Dear Boyfriend,

Hey. I know it's been a while since I've gotten to see you face to face. It's hard, going to school almost three hours apart. But it's easy still, because you know, closeness does not equal proximity. I talk to you more than anyone else, even my roommate with whom I'm forced to share a space for most of the day. I think about you more than I think about doing my school work and I dream about you more than I tend to sleep. I love you. You are the light of my world and everything that matters to me is in you.

I remember when we first became friends, when I was just fifteen years old. You were dating that bitch and I couldn't stop thinking about how much better for you I could be. I was supposed to be her friend but I hated her, because she didn't appreciate the amazing boyfriend that she had. She was jealous of how close we were -- at the time only friends -- and she once threatened to cut me off from your life completely. That wouldn't have worked, though.

Do you remember what you told me? The day that you left my campus to go back to Cincinnati? You said, "I love you, Sarah. You were an inevitability. You always were." I love that. I read that text all the time. Because you're right, in your life I was an inevitability -- our paths crossing was something that was supposed to happen. It happened seven years ago when I was a dorky middle schooler hanging out at a high school football game, and it happened again when we were in high school.

I will never stop being grateful for the amazing blessing that you are in my life. I love you. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me and not a day goes by that I don't thank the stars above for the precious gift that they gave me in you. I love you. No one else holds a candle to how amazing and talented and brilliant and sexy and warm and safe you are to me. I say this to you every day but you are so important to me.

I love you, awesome nerd.

Sincerely,