We were talking about my love for writing and he said, “Well I want you to know that wherever you are and whatever happens remember that someone out there believes in you and in your writing especially.” My writing means so much to me and him saying that made me realize how much deeper he felt for me than I had realized.

Mwajim

It all started from separation, we met at university, we spent around half a year together, and I loved her with all my heart. Since we were both international students from two different countries we were forced to go home during the summer (because of parents), so it was a long long summer… and finally when the summer did end, she arrived to the school about 2 days ahead of me…

That night was when my plane arrived, my heart was filled with excitement, and anticipation knowing I’d finally see the LOVE OF MY LIFE. So I carried my luggage as I entered the school’s front gates, and on my way to the dorm, I saw a familiar figure… suddenly she ran towards me and leaped into my arms and wrapped me so tightly that I didn’t even need to hold her and she would stick on to me! That was the sweetest thing that has ever happened to me. I would literally do anything to re-live that moment, it was just… something not even words could describe.

Cayenne

My boyfriend had set up an African trip the week before we met (we began talking in October and his trip started Jan 2nd)  There was no way I could arrange to go so he went alone and for two months contact was very limited.  When he was in Cape Town just before the official start of the trip he asked me to think of a name for a lion cub.   I picked the name Delilah and he thanked me for picking a name and asking no questions.  When he came for his first visit in May he gave me a present.  Inside the gift bag was a packet of photos of him and a little stuffed lion cub in all of the places he had been in Africa. Each picture had a caption on it saying where they were or what they were up to. The first said the African Adventures of Adam and Delilah.  It ended with a picture of the two of them together and said that they were thinking of me through their trip.  He had carried Delilah on his tour bus with the entire group and took pictures just so he could give them to me.  After I looked at the pictures he told me to look in the bag again and I saw Delilah.  I now have her to sleep next to me until we can be together again.

Karen

My boyfriend has never been the romantic type. This has never particularly bothered me because I accept him just the way he is. He’s not the one who speaks with words, rather with actions. The day I left him was when I realized how in love with him I really was, even though our goodbye was rather cold, and more friend-like. A couple days after I got home from college I had an email on my inbox from him. What it said brought me to tears cause I know he said it with all honesty and love in his heart. He wanted me and missed me, he missed my smell and my touch…and even the way I snore cause it was cute (And I never even knew I snored!). He said I was wonderful and worth waiting for, and how much it hurt him to be away from me, he even said his heart stopped beating when I left and he felt lost and sorry for not telling me how much I meant to him when I was there.

It might not be incredibly romantic to other people, but to me it meant the world. I read that email every time I feel sad and it just reminds me how much we love each other and how we are gonna overcome this period of time we are not in each others arms.

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