Herald staff and readers share the love this Valentine’s Day

Dear Kristi,
It has been a wonderful couple of months since I first met you. Though we have been going out for such a short time, I feel like I have known you for a much longer time.
You continually push me to be a better person through the volunteer work we do, but also through eating healthy and working out more.
I wish I had met you before our senior years, but I know that if we are meant to be together, we’ll be together after we graduate.

Have a happy Valentine’s Day,
Zach

TB,
I’m unsure of what to say. I never thought that one person could ever have such an influence of who I am but it’s true, you have guided me to understand who I am today. This year has been especially rough for me in all facets of my life. No matter what happens you lift my spirits and help me realize that even when nothing is going as planned there is another opportunity just around the corner.
We always joke that we met out of sheer luck or maybe it really was that certain friend of ours who brought us together. It’s not important how we came to be but I know I have enjoyed every moment of it. You are all that I dream of, want, and need. Our story is that of love and friendship united. I have the impression that no one can love the way we do and for us the most important things in life is our family and friends. Thank you for making me laugh even when I yell at you and allowing me to live a fuller life because you have opened my heart. I love you.
C

Jake,
Growing up I realized I could never give my heart to someone unless I found someone who loved me like my father loves my mother. I know my father would go to hell and back to please her, he’d sacrifice his pride and he’d beat just about anything. And I know she’d do the same for him.
But I have my mother’s temper and my father’s stubbornness and I wondered who would put up with me like my parents do with each other. My mother told me that their secret weapon after a soon-to-be 21 years of marriage (shout out to mom and dad, Happy Anniversary Kathy and Pat Wioskowski!) is patience, which she said with a laugh.
I don’t know what my life would be like at this point had I not found you. Someone to tell me how ridiculous I’m acting, to drag me to bed every night, to put peroxide on my cuts while I curse at them. To remind me to relax, to let me straighten his hair (ha! sorry!), to drive an hour to see me just because I had a bad day.
I know that no one loves my mother more than my father and I’ll never take for granted that no one will love me more than you. I thank you for putting up with me, I’m a handful, I know.
So baby, let’s stay together. I love you.

Your best friend,
Ashley

Morgan,
Our story is one for the books.  We first met when you moved in across the street from me; you were five, I was six.  I used to hang out with you all the time; we were best friends.  As we got older, we went our separate ways, though we were never more than a grade apart.  Then, in my senior year of high school, I got this crazy idea to ask you out.  The best decision I ever made!
Look at us now, four years later and we’re still together, and I love you more with each passing day.  You know, I’ve loved you ever since the day you first “came to me.” I’ll always love you.  You truly are my best friend, my better half, the one that completes me.  I’ll profess that to the world!  I can’t wait to spend my life with you.
Happy Valentine’s Day!!

Love,
Ben

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Posted by HeraldAdmin on Feb 12 2009. Filed under Love Letters, Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

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