My darling [her name]:

It's so hard to believe that [number] [measurement of time] have passed since we first laid eyes on each other at [place]. If someone had told me that on that day I would meet my one true love, I would have laughed in their face. But my laughter would have been too soon, for I met you. I know you have said that I'm not very good at expressing my emotions sometimes, so I wanted to write you this letter from my heart, sharing my unique feelings for you and the time we have spent together.

Before you, everything seemed so dark and empty. I've always felt that I am alone in this bizarre world, too sensitive for the cruelty that surrounds us every waking day. It seemed as if, before you, I was just a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wondering if it was possible to start again - or if I had ever truly started at all. This unending abyss seemed to echo my name, over and over, "[your name], [your name], [your name]," and I willingly allowed myself to fall deeper into its depths. Until a new echo entered, "[her name], [her name], [her name]," a new sound that, like ear drums first feeling the vibrations of Death Cab for Cutie, seemed to encompass all that I was, all that I felt. This echo pulled me out of the darkness and into the sweet sunlight radiating in the world of love.

And I have never even liked sunlight, but you made me want to press pause on my Zune and open my curtains to it. It seems so unreal that [religious figure] would grace our pitiful world, so full of moral decay and filth, with someone as radiant as you. You are not only my salvation, but our salvation. By saving me from my loneliness, my rage, and the depths of my profound mind, you have also saved the world. You have made me a better person - and by doing so, inspired humanity.

I love everything you are, everything you are not, and everything I am now. You have raised me up, so now I can stand on the dismal mountains of darkness that once stood on me.

[your name]