Hi Abigaillllll!!!

What’s poppin, good lookin!!!!! Hmmmmm, today I spent a lot of time reflecting on what God has done for me, and I think one of His greatest gifts has been giving me someone I can grow in my faith with. I’m so grateful to have someone I can worship with, someone who knows His Word, and someone whose faith I admire SOO much. I truly look up to you, and I thank God for bringing you into my life.

I think today I’m gna keep it short and sweet because sometimes all I really want to say is that I love you, I’m grateful for you, and growing closer to God alongside you means so much to me. I can't wait to bible study with you!!!! ❤️

Lets listen to this song together!! I’ll be having it on repeat these next few days!!

Hola Abigail!!!

Wow, it feels as if college classes and life might actually be a little bit hard for me! I really don’t know how in the world you are so strong and somehow able to manage everything. But once again, I hope you know that if you ever need me, I promise I will drop everything and listen to you. I pinky promise. And I feel like we brush it off quite easily when we say we are proud of each other, but I am GENUINELY so proud of you, the person that you are, the way you live your life, and the way you treat the people around you.

First off, I know some of this will seem quite cheesy (corn cheese) to you, but bear with me. I need to show you how much I love you.

Allow me to get to the point of what I am feeling right now. When I wake up, the first thing I reach for is my phone because I know there will be some little piece of you waiting for me in my notifications. Obviously, none of it compares to seeing you in real life, but oh dear, do I love waking up every single day and getting to call you my girlfriend.

The other day, you said you don’t want me to be sad for the next four years because I miss you so much. But frankly, I don’t think what I feel is sadness at all. If anything, missing you just makes me more excited for every call and every little moment we get to share. I feel so lucky that even from far away, you literally make my days feel brighter with our everyday calls and your jokes. Thank you for showing up for all my little emotional crises WHENEVER I need you. More than anything, I feel honored that God somehow decided to place you in MY goofy life. How in the world did I manage that???

I know this part will probably make you cringe the most, BUT listen up.

Seeing as I am quite the awkward person when it comes to speaking and articulating my words, sometimes I don’t even know how to explain how much I love you, and I just end up rambling about how I love everything about you, from your earlobes to your eyebrows. But honestly, if I could wish for one thing right now, it would be to give you the biggest hug ever and just not let go.

And I also know that it is impossible for me not to miss you. You have become such a beautiful part of my everyday life that, of course, I notice when you are far away. But if missing you is the price I have to pay for loving you from a distance, then I can most definitely live with that. And I know I’ve said this before, but it still feels so extremely special that I even have someone in my life whom I can miss this much.

I sure do love missing you ❤️

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Hi Abigail!!!!

Today was my second day of classes, so sorry I’ve been a little bit busy, but that is no excuse. I need to lock in and make more time for you!!

But today, when I was doing my math homework, I put my headphones on for the first time in a while to listen to music, and I happened to see Forest in my recommended.

You KNOW I had to get some Paper Kites and Hollow Coves going!

I know I’ve been putting a lot of music over these messages, but so many songs remind me of you!! And this one especially brought me back to that one time we went to the beach and you played it. I remember kinda jumping in my seat because I thought it was super niche. But I guess I’ve come to learn that my girlfriend is the best and coolest at everything, so I really shouldn’t have been surprised.

I remember telling you then that this song felt like living freely. You were a little confused by what I meant, but I think that was mostly because I wasn’t very articulate with my words.

So here’s what I meant.

This song reminds me of you. It reminds me of when your hair flows in the wind, when you cross your legs while you’re sitting, and when we’re just walking and talking like nothing else really matters. It reminds me of all the times we were together and it felt like time wasn’t really a thing.

I think that’s what I meant by living freely. Just being with you and not really thinking about what time it is or where we have to be next. Being with you is literally like the best dream I’ve ever had AND IM LIVING IT!!!!

When I was in the third grade, I always wondered how couples could possibly have enough stuff to talk about for the rest of their lives together.

I guess I was young, dumb, and without Abby.

Because now I get what it mean to care soo deeply for someone. I miss being by your side and talking like we had nowhere else to be and nothing else we needed to do and soo much time before school started.

And when I think about those times, it’s never even anything huge that comes to mind. This song reminds me of you jokingly storming off when I said something stupid, us fighting over who was going to pay, and obviously you tickle attacking me.

I haven’t been tickle attacked in a while.

And I guess I kinda miss it A LOT.

-your boyfriend who misses you even more every day

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ABIGAILLLLLLLLL ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I miss you so so so so so much right now. I just got back from playing soccer, and as we were walking to go to the Michigan and UCLA soccer game, I suddenly felt really sad. So I may have lied to Ian and our friend Hubert and said that I had a headache so that I could come back and write this.

There were a few times today when I thought I smelled your perfume, the one that you said your mom got you (the one that gives you a headache 🥹). And every single time, I would turn my head, hoping and just praying that you’d somehow be there.

Obviously you were not gonna randomly appear in Los Angeles because I smelled your perfume, but for that split second before I turned around, I genuinely thought maybe. And frankly, I dont know if this is good or bad, but those moments where you were almost here were better than any one that ive met these past few days

And then I’d turn around and it would just be some random person.

I don’t even know why today in particular has been so hard. I’ve missed you every day obviously, but today I REALLY miss you. But today i just I want to see you and bother you and hug you and just exist next to you for a little bit.

I really really love you so much❤️
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Hi Abby, I'm back again!

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As I was driving to go shopping with my sister, she asked me what my favorite food was. Without thinking much of it, I just said, “I don’t know.” But then I immediately went on to tell her about some of the foods I didn’t like.

“That’s so stupid,” she proceeded to say.

Frankly, I’ve gotten so used to telling you about all the foods I enjoy and don’t enjoy that I’ve started to think it was completely normal to be as picky as I am. But in fact, I am quite the oddity. Or perhaps WE are 😉. You never really make me feel like that though. You make me feel like I’m good just as I am.

And speaking of food, the other day when we were talking about our first texts to each other, I must’ve scrolled past tens of thousands of messages, and so many of them were about food.

We talked about the mushy nature of blueberries and how they’re basically a lottery. We talked about lemons. We talked about all the different pastas that we love. Somehow, we’ve managed to have so many conversations about foods that probably did not deserve anywhere near that much analysis.

When we got back from that walk in San Diego, Nick looked at me and said, “You guys just talked about food for 3 hours?! You gotta lock in.”

Personally, I thought I was in flow state.

And honestly, I thought it was so cool that we could talk for that long about something that a lot of people might think is trivial. Somehow we could just keep going, and neither of us seemed to get bored of it.

I love that I can go to Starbucks and know your favorite drink, or go to In-N-Out and know your whole order by heart, depending on your mood. I love that you know that I hate the stems of vegetables(cause nobody else seems to remember that and I somehow have it in my food nearly everyday), and that we can laugh about how stupid some of my reasons for hating foods are.

If I could quote Dr. S, or perhaps just badly paraphrase something that he perhaps once said, “Food is what connects people.”

And I think he was kinda right.

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Oh hi there. Hope you’re having the best day ever, and if you’re not, that’s okay. Sometimes days just aren’t meant to be all good, cuz then the amazing ones wouldn’t feel quite as amazing.

Wow! I’m so wise. Almost as wise as my girlfriend. I don’t know if you’ve heard of her… She’s kind of an urban legend out in these parts of the world.

Her name starts with an A and ends with GAIL, but I am lucky enough to just call her my girlfriend.

It’s really nice to be back in a similar time zone as you, though NOW I’ll just have to live my life three hours ahead of schedule ❤️

I already texted you this, but Ive somehow managed to pool together enough money to get myself a flight to Boston. So whenever you are free!!!

Speaking of flights, youve officially taken flight into the fdoc (I just learned that 😉). I am 100 percent certain that Tufts has absolutely no idea what’s coming for them.

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Anyways for real tho, flying back to los angeles was actually so painful. When I was in China, all I could really think about was flying back. At first I thought it was just because China was boring, but then I started seeing all the cool stuff there and realized that wasn’t really true. So then I thought maybe I just missed being around my friends.

When I was flying back yesterday and looking at the city beneath me while the little map of Los Angeles was displayed on my screen, I kinda realized what I had actually been missing the whole time. I missed the person I want to experience everyday life with. The person I can say literally whatever is on my mind to, no matter how random or stupid, and somehow still hear some type of laugh afterward (whether it’s fake or not, you can decide). I missed having someone to tell the tiny things to. The things that arent important enough to remember or save for later, but that I want to tell you anyway just because they happened to me and youre you.

And I don’t say all of this because I want to make you sad but rather I just want to say thank you for being someone that I can miss this much. I think there’s something really special about having a person whose absence you can actually feel in your everyday life.

So yeah, thank you for being the person I want to tell everything to, even when theres really nothing to tell. ❤️

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Hi Abigail!!!!

Wow, does time move slowly when you’re not here. Anyways, I realized that I haven’t exactly been writing to you with proper grammar, so starting at this particular moment, I shall commence with impeccable writing and deliver a proper composition.

I have developed a terrible heartache from my time away from you, but of course, that only makes me even more excited for the next time I get to see you. I genuinely don’t think I can wait until Thanksgiving, so I was thinking maybe sometime in October, after your parents’ weekend thing, if you’ll have me.

Abby, I think I genuinely fall more and more in love with you every day 🥹. Thank you for calling me, checking in on me, and always thinking of me. You make me feel so incredibly special, and I hope you know how much all of those little things mean to me.

Also, your infectious zest for life and college has somehow made me really excited for school to start too, so thank you for that! Though I may not be quite as proficient in the people-skills department as you are, I promise I’ll remember all the advice you’ve given me.

Oh, I miss you so much I could actually cry right now.

Side note: PLEASE send me your mailing box thingy pleaseeee, I beg of you. There are some cool things I want to send you, and I am being deprived of the opportunity.

Sending all my love from far, far away!!

-Warren

If I’m being honest, I already miss my girlfriend so much, and it’s been less than a week. Not being able to see her is already hard enough, but with everyone around me asking about her, it’s got me thinking about her EVEN more!

My aunt, who’s my cousin’s mom and is staying with us, keeps asking me the same question: what do you like most about Abby? And honestly, it’s easy to give her the obvious answers. She’s compassionate, kind, and caring. She’s so selfless and would do anything to make her family and friends feel special. AND she’s so so pretty! But I feel like none of those answers are complete.

The more I think about it, the harder it is to explain because it’s really all the small things that other people just don’t understand. I love when she plays with my hair, when I can rest my face in the palms of her hands, and how she immediately reaches out her other hand after I crack her thumb. I love how she wraps her arm around mine while I drive and rests her head on my shoulder, how she always needs to pee, and how tightly she squeezes me when we hug. I love how the sun treats her like its favorite person ever and blesses her with the most perfect rays of light, how her brown eyes remind me of a relaxing sunset on the porch, even though she hates when I stare into them for too long, and most of all, how she makes me feel like the most special person ever.

I miss you so much already. These next few months are gonna be dreadful.