here's the story (buckle up):
geography has been our biggest problem. im from washington and shes from california. we met at a swim meet when she was 13 and i was 16. we exchanged email addresses and kept meeting up at big travel meets for the next few years. i moved down to california for college and we started dating (she lured me up to her house and seduced me). we ended up splitting up because we were still two hours away and i had no car (i used to ride the amtrack up to her house on the weekends). we dated other people for the next few years and had some extremely awkward meetings with our respective gf/bf in tow.....and yet all the while kept our secret texts/emails going.
this past december she took the big leap and said hey were both single lets make things happen again. things went real quick from there. she came up here for a week. we started talking about how permanent we want to make it. then i just went down there for a week. i asked her parents for permission and they said yes (neverous as fuck walking into a room with them.....inspected their ceiling for a while before i could speak). i called my parents tonight to tell them (only talked to mom cause my dad was night skiing at alpental).
weve known each other for 8 years now. im 24 and shes 22 (two year and one month difference). were not officially engaged. but have explained the situation to both parents and they support it. i plan on selling my kidney and liver to purchase a ring sometime fairly soon, officially ask her when she comes up here in march, and then were thinking about a tahoe wedding next summer (2010). shes finishing up her fifth year in college and it would be a few months before she could move up, but whats a few months after 8 years?
we both swam our whole lives and like snow, lakes, ocean, and any form of water. i really couldn't be happier spending the rest of my life with her. really. shes amazing.
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