From the very first email I got from my sweetie last spring, after I'd sent a short note at Classmates.com to say "hello" for the first time in 20 years:

"In short, I hope you are happy and would love to hear from you."

Those fourteen words changed my life forever.

__________________


"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, then let it, and if you have to wait for what you really want, take the time because nobody said that life would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it." ~ Unknown author