Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. -William Shakespeare From Katie I think that the distance has mostly been a blessing in disguise. Without being able to be with each other (sometimes being apart for months), the only thing we have is communication….

“You know what they say,” people would tell me.  “‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder’…” I’d smile, for in fact, it was the way I often comforted myself in those years of being hundreds of miles apart from the man I wanted to marry. “…Fonder for someone else!”  They’d often add.  Teasingly, of course.  Yet…