The world is FAR too sympathetic a place…or maybe I’m just heartless…but it seems to me that when people can’t even appreciate a picture because it’s “making young girls think they should be something that they can never be”. Tell me how many models DON’T use airbrush…I use it (not saying I’m a model but still). If magazines put pictures of girls that have pimples and yellow teeth and wrinkles, no one is going to buy that magazine…I wouldn’t. If those teenage girls were in the same position as those girls in those magazines, they would want the same procedures taken out on them…I’m just saying. People don’t need to be protesting magazines. Lets be serious.

Whenever I think of Tennessee, I’m going to think of you first. And how you love it there and your family is there and how much you like just driving there. And when I hear that Neon Trees song, I will always think of you and the first time I really started to like you. We rode in your car and I was so excited to know that you liked that song as much as I did. And every time I go to the place we went I’m going to be so sad. And I will miss you so much it hurts. That song I wrote you will always be yours. I will always ALWAYS remember how badly I longed for you and how long I waited and how many tries I gave you. I will never forget the last hug you ever gave me. I was crying because I knew that I was saying goodbye to a part of myself that I loved so much. You were the beginning of a new me. You made me into someone who was fearless and brave and a little bit careless. You made me into everything I love about myself. And I will never be able to thank you enough for that. Falling for you was the easiest thing I ever did. Loving you was the craziest. And saying goodbye to you is the single HARDEST thing I have EVER done. Deep down in my heart, I fear that I didn’t do enough to make you remember. I feel like letting go is going to make you forget everything that we ever had together. You will make someone so, SO happy one day. I always meant when I said I loved you. From the first to the last. And I will always mean it. Whether I’m in love with you or not, I will always love you. I don’t want you to remember me as a crying, sappy, sad ex-lover. When you remember me, please take a look at yourself and the parts that made me love you in the first place. Because that is how you are a part of me. Those little pieces of you are a part of me and who I am because I admired them so greatly, I wanted people to look at me like they do you. You are SUCH a beautiful person and I will miss you every day until forever. 

This is the name I will have as mine one day. 

Christopher Scott Stainbrook,

I don’t know how many letters I’ve written for you that started with I love you. But here’s another one. I love you. We have been through SO much together in the last 9 months. You have changed so much and so have I. We have reached a point where we realize that people change and that we have to change together to make us work. I love who you were when we met just as much as I love you now. I would have taken you (cigarettes, piercings and cutoff jeans) just the way you were the DAY that I met you if you didn’t want to change. You are the most significant human being in my life and I would really be a mess without you.

I love your brown eyes and your crooked nose and your perfect arms and your sweet heart. We will always have work to do because there is no perfection. But I WANT to work with you. I want to hear every little complaint you have about things I did wrong. Because I would rather you tell me then you keep it all cooped up inside. Every time I look down at this ring on my finger, I don’t see what I used to see (an anchor, settling, a lost cause, a heavy commitment). I see a token of your affection for me and more importantly, a symbol of the love that we have for each other. There is nothing I wouldn’t do for you. And right now, I’m honestly hearing (literally) cliché, cliché, cliché!!! But that’s what love is, right? Love is probably the oldest game in the book but its just about as popular now as it was at the beginning of time.

You are so special and you were never a mistake. Your mother did not say you were a mistake EVER. If she thought you were a mistake, you wouldn’t have the home you have now and the loving parents you have. Shit happens baby and you of all people should know that. I would have been honored to have met your mom but that’s just life. I’m proud of everything you’ve accomplished in the last 9 months and even though we’re the epitome of a young couple, we’ll always find a way to make it work. I will not give up on you.

You have always been good enough. In fact, you have always been too good for me. Waaaaaay out of my league not matter how much you argue. Chris I love you and that is that. You are the only person for me. I am so fortunate to have found you when I did. And I cannot wait to have the privilege of taking your name as mine. 

I love you bunches of crunches

                 & oodles to noodles,

Your Jess

Hearing your name makes me sad.

I love Chris more than I ever loved you (and he actually gives a shit) but sometimes I’m just sad about you.

I don’t have a cool collage because you have yet to teach me about them :p But THIS is my FAVORITE picture of you. It describes exactly who you are. You are goofy and fun but you are beautiful and graceful at the same time :)

Our friendship does something for me that not a lot of friendships ever have. I feel like I’ve grown since I’ve met you. And I feel like I’ve grown in ways that I couldn’t have if I hadn’t met you. You’ve taught me about the beauty of everyday life and that it’s okay to..how they say..”stop and smell the roses”. You’ve given me a different kind of confidence that I never thought I could have had.

You’ve given me advice when I was desperate and crying in my room because I had a fight with someone and you’ve danced with me in the car when I really need to listen to some loud music. We have so many adventures together!! Changing in public (out of people’s eyes of course :p) and getting lost on TRAILS :p!!!! 

You are SO immensely talented and watching your photography grow is like nothing else! You have something that is hard to find. You capture things that people would otherwise overlook and that is something to treasure.

I truly believe our friendship has value. I’ve watched you grow in your own way and become a more wonderful person than you were when we met (which was pretty much amazing to begin with). I told you about my seasons theory, and unfortunately no one else would understand it because no one else is you! People change all the time and when I look back at your fall-self and then look at your spring-self, I see SO much growth (and some serious ABS!) 

I honestly cannot wait to see what God has planned for us because I’m sure we’re going to be friends for a long time : ) you are so precious to me and our friendship is so important

I love you Arielle!! <3 <3 <3 

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