Dear College Town,

I have heard it said before the “distance makes the heart grow fonder” but I always thought it to be mumbo jumbo; however, having been home for the summer and away from you for three months, I finally know this cliché to be true. Don’t get me wrong, being home has been great but there are just certain things I miss about you.

You have become my home – you have all of my favorite places to eat, you have all of my friends with you, you were the place of my biggest transformations and epiphanies. And now I have not been with you in three months. In these three months, I have worked at a new place, made friends at that new place, and done a lot of soul searching, but none of it makes me feel the way I do when I am with you.

You are my stressed times, my fun times, my sad times, and all of my times in between; you are the nights I stay up late with friends talking about Jesus, you are the early mornings for service projects, and you are the afternoon study sessions at cute little coffee shops; you are my home and I miss you.

Though our relationship has not been very long, the quality of our relationship is substantial. You have brought so much good and so much joy into my life – the friends that became family, the campus that became home, the classes that turned into passions. You have yet to leave me disappointed or wanting more. I will forever thank God for placing me with you for my four years of college. Though I may move away eventually, I will always cherish the time we spent together.

I only have 5 days left in this home away from you and while I am sad to leave my family, I am more than ecstatic to drive around your streets playing music, to kill time on campus when I have nothing else to do, to laugh until I cry with my friends again. Thank you for all the good you have brought into my life; I can’t wait to be reunited with you.

Lots of love,

A College Kid in That College Town