Letter from Brian
Posted on February 23, 2008 by Ching under Flickr, Life, Travel.
Brian and I came across this sad letter while cleaning the office today. It’s sad for two reasons: Brian was uber sappy (I didn’t really count, but I think he said he loved me and missed me at least a dozen times in this letter; and check out the poem in the closing) and it’s handwritten, therefore, he couldn’t use grammar or spell check (notice the lack of punctuation). I’m really glad his writing has improved immensely. LOL.
Jokes aside, the letter is actually very sweet. It was written back in 1999, before we “officially” moved in together. He sent this to California where I spent a couple of weeks in November that year.
The significance of this letter is that it was the first and only time we’d been apart until Brian’s trip to New Hampshire. I moved in about a month after this letter. Brian and I haven’t been apart since. That’s a really, really long time… which is why the week he spent in New Hampshire was really difficult. Anyway, I just wanted to put his sappy blog postings in perspective. In almost ten years of being a couple, it was the first Valentines that we’ve spent apart.
Back in 1999, I didn’t have a cellphone so keeping in touch was actually more challenging. During the week Brian was in New Hampshire, we talked on the phone for several hours every single night. We even watched American Idol together on Tuesday and Wednesday. I think we talked more on the phone that week than we did in the last couple of months. Thank God for free mobile-to-mobile!
With Brian’s new job at Viega, this probably won’t be the last time he’ll be asked to travel. It will take some getting used to but I think we will manage.
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