My love,

There are so many things I want to tell you, I just don't know where to begin. But I guess 'at the beginning' makes a lot of sense. 

So that takes me back to the beautiful island of Ibiza, where we met. I remember the exact moment that I first saw you at the Yoga Retreat where you worked. We shook hands and I introduced myself. My always spot on intuition told me that you were special. I could tell by your smile, your cheerful face, and your happy hair. Did anybody ever tell you that you have happy hair? Really, you do! I guess I'd be happy too, if I got to spend every second of every day with you.

I didn't know that I'd end up wanting to spend every second of every day with you too, when we met that day. But I certainly do now. 

When we got to talking, it quickly became obvious to the both of us that eventhough we had never met before, our lives have been so similar, it's almost like we were seperated at birth. We were both born in 1972, we grew up listening to the same music, still loving the same songs and TV shows. We are both adventurous spirits; growing up in the Netherlands, but both travelled the world and at some point in our lives we both lived in the States. As teenagers, we even both broke our front teeth! There are a million more similarities like saying/writing the same things at the same time when we're chatting with eachother... Or finishing eachother sentenses... And how about that time when we had both made a "Places to Go & Fun Things to Do Together list," at the exact same time without ever even mentioning such a thing! We truly are soulmates. No question about it!

I remember our first "date," which probably wasn't really a date, but surely ended up being one. I fell in love with you that evening. Somewhere between acting like a nervous schoolgirl when you picked me up at the trainstation in The Hague at 07:00pm and 07:00am the next morning when we were still talking... That night was much like the first time we talked when we were still on Ibiza... We just 'clicked' instantly! It was like we had 39 years of catching up to do in one night! And we are so alike, it's spooky! Talking to you sometimes is like hearing myself answering my own questions... And today, a little over 2 months after talking to you the very first time, a bunch of airplane trips back and forth and a few very high phonebills later, things have not changed one bit! I never get tired of talking to you... And we still don't run out of things to say to eachother... And I hope we never will. 

There are so many things I love about you. I love the way you walk, how you carry yourself... You have a kind of 'toughness' about you which is sooo cool! I love your sense of pride; you know exactly who you are and what you stand for. I absolutely love the way you dress, the way you smell, the way you smile, and the way you wear your (happy) hair. I love your sensitivity and spirituality; you know what you were put on this world for and you love every bit of carrying out that mission. I love how you're never cranky when you wake up, and I love being there next to you that very moment you open your eyes and welcome a new day of possibilities. I love how you love people (and mostly me), and you want to help them reach their true potential. I love your quiet ambition; you just know you will reach your goals and I am just as confident your talent and dedication will help you get there. I love your sense of humor (probably because it's just like mine)... You crack me up! I love how you make up new names for all the tram stations we pass. And I love how we both know that blinking our eyes will not get us home, but we still keep trying anyway. I am fascinated by your knowlegde of the human body, health and nutrition. There's so much you have already taught me which helped me live a better life and am forever grateful for that! I love how things are never complicated with you; how easy you are to talk to, and how honest and open you are. Not to mention; what a great listener you are! I love how you are perfectly balanced between soft and tough; you can be such a tough cookie sometimes, but you are sooo sweet!!! I love how your eyebrows rise up when you ask me a question, and that no answer I give is ever the wrong one, in your eyes. I love how caring you are; you get up in the morning to fix us tea, so we can stay in the bed and watch some more TV shows on the laptop. And I don't even mind all the cookie crumbs in the bed... I looove how you are just as lazy as I am. And I am so thankful you don't mind how annoyingly indecisive I can be. I am blown away with how patient and understanding you are, because I know I'm hard to get through to sometimes. And I love how I still get butterflies in my tummy everytime I see your name pop up in my email inbox. I love how pretty soon we'll be able to cross of items of our To Do & To Go lists together, I'm so excited for our future... I cannot wait for it to start when you get back from Ibiza the very last time next week. Oh yeah, did I mention; I love how you're leaving such a beautiful island to be with me. Just because you know you need to be here. Yes! I beat a fuqqin island!!! Sweetheart, there are so many more things I love about you, I could fill up a whole book... Maybe one day I will. But what I love most of all, is the way that you love me.

Nobody has ever loved me the way you do. I'm trying to find the words to express how you make me feel, but I find myself backspacing a million superlatives that just don't cut it. None of them come even close to describing the impact you have made on my life so far. Except for maybe 'magical'... You are a fairytale dream come true, and I can't wait for "happily ever after" to start when we're moving in together on Tuesday. 

"Sometimes all you wish for, is for someone to wish for you."

You told me you had asked for me... Wow. 

I spent 39 years waiting for someone who is just like me, but better. Someone that I can laugh out loud with until it hurts. And someone who I can also have serious stimulating conversations with. Someone who has all the qualities in a person that I found in you. Someone that loves me exactly the way that you do. Someone that wants to care for me the way you do, and be there for me the way you are. Someone as amazing as you. Someone that makes life MAGICAL.

And I can only hope that I make you as happy as you have already made me. You are my one true love. My soulmate. And my best friend! I had no idea where to look for you or what you would look like. But there you were, on a beautiful island in the Mediterranean, where I had come to find some innerpeace. But what I found instead was so much more than that. I found LOVE.
And it was wrapped up in a beautiful person, with happy hair.
I love you, Jolanda. 

Vicky