Hello friends,

I was cleaning out some stuff today and found a love note from an ex.  It's kind of sweet...well, it was kind of sweet at the time, until I figured out he was a crazy man.  The ink is faded, so this is more of an archive than anything else.

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Dear Charya,

I am writing this to you because I can no longer hold this in.  I WANT to be with you.  I WANT you to be with me.  But what has happened?  4 weeks ago you wanted to be with me.  You would call and we would meet-if only for a few minutes.  You wanted to hold my hand.  You wanted to kiss me.  Now you want nothing to do with me.  I don't understand.  I thought I showed you how much I cared about you.  How much I love you.  Is that what scares you?  You told me you didn't want to get burned.  Honey, none of us do.  

I remember when I first wanted to express my love for you, but I was scared and unsure.  You told me to go ahead and not be afraid.  I did, and look where I am now.  Without my girlfriend in my arms with a deep hole in my heart that hurts a little more everyday I don't have you.  

It's time for you to step up and tell me what you REALLY feel.  I want to believe that you will tell me that you care about me.  That you have feelings for me.  That you love me.

I want to believe all of that but if you don't share your feelings with me I don't know what to do.  It's simply one way or another.  Either you want to be with me-be my girlfriend and we can share our lives together.  Or you don't want to be with me.  In which case I'll understand - kind of.  So I will know to stop dreaming of you.  To stop wanting you.

So it's up to you.  You must open up and tell me what your heart says.  Whatever the answer, I swear you won't get burned.  

I am hoping what you will tell me - and preaying, that you want a relationship with me.  That I can be your man and that you will be my woman.  I care for you SO much.  I have great plans for the both of us.  I have told you these things many times, and I will say them just once more.  You are the best thing that has ever happened to me, and I don't want to lose you.  I don't want to live my life without you.  If your answer is no, you don't want to be with me, I understand.  I promise I won't bother you ever again.  I will just move on with an empty sadness in my soul of what we could have been together.

Always my love for you,

Pat

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So, here are my comments to this...he was a pot smoking, bar owner who in the end I was afraid of.  He loved me so much, he came to a band concert of mine blitzed.  Now THAT is love.  Needless to say, that didn't last long.  It was, however, the only year that I actually had a date on Valentine's Day.  

My friends....I sure know how to pick them.  

More later.

Love and hugs!