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I Am In Love And Not Afraid To Shout It From The Rooftops

A Letter To My Pretty Awesome Partner

Deanna

Jun 12, 2017

Hagerstown, MD

I Am In Love And Not Afraid To Shout It From The Rooftops

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How can I stand there staring at this human being who is dancing to Alt-J making weird faces at me while driving stick shift in his way too clean STI and loving every moment of it. There is a calmness knowing your partner loves you just as much as you love them, if not more.

True love has changed my life, it has broken down my worst fears into oblivion. My only remaining fear is losing the person I wake up to almost every morning. Who has a beautiful dog that could vomit on my lap and I would kiss his mouth off... just because the person I love is attached to him.

True love is not competition, it is understanding that your partner is extremely sensitive and you should build them up in every way possible because they deserve to be treated with respect and kindness. True love is being honest no matter how much it makes you hurt inside having to tell the other person you deepest darkest secret. True love is knowing that after you tell them they will love you even more for it.

True love, to me, is listening to a band over and over and planning your wedding to the instrumentals because you both agree that it this a huge part of your love story. True love to me is being able to be silly drunk at that bands concert and dance around look a nerd while he is sitting there gawking at the guitarist literally just staring.

True love is understanding that your differences are what actually make you strong together. Also, discovering our odd similarities like both of our dads passing away too soon, our birthdays being on the same day of a different month (17th), and that he played on my brothers hockey ice hockey team - I always wanted to date an ice hockey player. Even the way we dance awkwardly or how our families both had the same vehicle growing up.

You see, true love is just the truth. There is no written guide for what it should look like, how it should feel, who you should fall in love with. It is about loving your best friend and making them your partner. It is feeling like home when you are with them and being able to get the heck over your silly fights when they happen. It is being able to go through the worst time of your life and still feel something positive. Knowing that you have someone on your side makes it a hell of a lot easier because they are fighting the battle with you, not against you.

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4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

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