"From the first moment I saw you, I knew you were different. It wasn't just your smile, nor the way you spoke, as if the world could burn, and you would still believe in the good.
It was something deeper. Something that made me understand that my heart, though it didn't know it, had been waiting for you.
I haven't met anyone else who could fill your place. You have been the only one, Candace.
The only one I've loved unconditionally, illogically, timelessly.
From that first day… to this moment, and all those to come.
Today I promise you that I will be that safe place where you can rest when everything weighs you down.
That I will stand by you without trying to change you.
That I will keep falling in love with the woman you are, the one you were, and the one you are yet to discover.
