Dear Christian,

I've only been gone for a few weeks but I'm already counting down the days to when I come back home to see you, and I know you are too. This long-distance thing is hard and I know we're both getting weird looks and comments from others about if it's really worth it for us, but we've done this once, so I think we can pull this off for the next couple years to come.

I know it wasn't easy on you when I told you I was moving to Colorado for four years to go to school, and it wasn't easy for me to have to tell you that either. All I can say is thank you for letting me be myself, and for letting me leave because you knew it was right for me. Thank you for being selfless when I was being selfish. You let me venture off and do what I thought was best for myself, even if it was going to be hard on the both of us.

Thank you for letting me come and visit and do all the things we usual do and act like I never left to begin with. Thank you for letting me meet all your new and amazing friends that you have met through school and letting me into your new life you've made there. I can't wait to pick you up from the airport and have you see Colorado for the first time and to meet everyone I've let into my life since I moved here. Thank you for letting me live my life here too. You could always be demanding to talk to me and want me to take time away from my school work and friends to talk to you, but you don't. You tell me to go study. You tell me to go out and have fun with my friends. You let me be myself.

Being home for the summer felt like no time together, and I know we were both sad when I got into my car and had to drive back, but thank you for not crying, because if you cried than I would've and then it would've made driving away even harder. I am going to miss the nights where we would just go to the McDonald's where we met and just eat McNuggets and laugh and then watch Criminal Minds in my basement until I fell asleep on your shoulder. Even though we didn't do much adventurous things, they were still fun because I was with you.

Thank you for all your support for these last couple of years together, in and out of long-distance. Thank you for all the supportive texts you send me before big tests and job interviews. You've always believed in me and you've always been my number one fan and I could not thank you more for that. You've always been there for me. When I say I'm going to drop out because school gets really hard, you always tell me I'm smarter than I think I am. When I call you at one in the morning upset about whatever it is, you never complain and you just listen to me. You're more than just my boyfriend, you're my best friend.

I'm still looking forward to the nights that we stay in and watch a movie together over Skype and we just crack jokes and laugh like we were right there together. I'm looking forward to all the care packages we send back and forth to each other with candy I shouldn't be eating and sweatshirts that you've worn for weeks just so it smells like you and all the little love letter you write when you're trying to be cute. I'm looking forward to all the music we put on our playlist and videos we send back and forth to each other and for our song to play when I'm out dancing with my friends on Tuesdays.

I'm looking forward to the rest of these years of college to be over so we can adventure the world together and you can teach me how to be a good photographer and I can teach you how to swing dance so you can hold your own with the cowboys around here. I'm looking forward to not have to say goodbye to you anymore for months on end and not have to spend our relationship through a phone or computer screen. You are what good boyfriends are made of, and I'm still confused on how I got this lucky with you. I can not thank you enough for everything you do for me and I could not love you more for it. Thank you.

Love Your Long-Distance Girlfriend,

Andi