Dedicated to MY Enchanted

“Dedicated to my Enchanted”, not a usual letter starter… but this is how all of these letters started that were delivered to my house on my 18^th birthday in a cardboard box. No return address, but one wasn’t needed because your location was already well known… My heart.

Love tore apart by unsupportive by-standers and a single heart broken. Just mines, so I thought but as I sat there with your letters in my hand, tears rolled down my face because then and only then did I realize it wasn't just mines. I had always thought that you had just forgotten about me and everything that we had. You never fought for me, no us and I could never understand why. I never could understand anything ‘til this very day. You always acted as if you were never fazed by any of this, but here you had been writing me letters the whole time that we were apart… The whole year and four months that we were forcefully separated.

When hard times came about, “Don’t forget” were words of code that we whispered amongst each other that only us, and a few close friends knew the meaning of. “Don’t forget me and don’t forget iloveyou...” No two words said more, but no two words did I think you would forget more quickly. But you didn't, you never forgot.

“My heart was never completely invested in letting you go, and I prayed that yours was never completely invested in letting me go either…” was the most memorable part of these letters… No words replayed in my head more often then those, nor had my heart beating so fast that you could literally see it jumping out of my chest. At this point the tears that were rolling down my face previous to this line, kicked into full-blown “waterfall” mode, causing my fresh birthday make up to run down my face. Turns out you waited for me, just like I prayed you would.

“Dedicated to my Enchanted”, yes still a strange way to start a letter, but as I spent my whole 18^th birthday reading and rereading these letters you wrote to me, while listening to music it all began to make sense. Enchanted by Taylor Swift began to play and as I sat there and listened to the lyrics I realized what it meant to not only be just “somebody’s” Enchanted, but to be yours. You were enchanted to meet me… we were enchanted to be together.

But you know what’s crazy? You signed all your letters, “The one who lost it all” and your name… Sad thing is, I was the one who really lost it all, as I opened my eyes to realize it was all just a dream …