If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
~ Sir James M. Barrie
After I returned to the East Coast from my California trip over Christmas break, Jeff wrote this:
8 Jan 97
Wednesday
O my love...
You are gone and my heart cannot believe it just yet...Is it true? O Davene, thank you so much for coming. While cleaning the house, I've been listening to the recital tape you made me - thank you very much. You sound great - who is the singer? I love you!!!
Thank you for the card...now I count the days until Valentine's. I looked through the paper today at places in Imperial Beach - there is a lot available. 2 bedroom apartments as low as 450- and 2 bedroom condos as low as 650- We will have to look together - maybe in February??
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I also went to the barber college... Frank suggested his church, Shadow Mountain, in El Cajon. It's a mega church with over a thousand people, but an orchestra, etc. I will go just to give it a try...maybe I could take Kim with me next Sunday night they have a service at 6 pm. Wherever you and I go to church at last, I am confident we will both like it. :)
The songs you added to the end of the tape are all great - I think your music ability has got my taste all figured out! :)
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Well, my love, I know there were a few letters waiting left over back there from me to you, but I will still try to hurry and get this one off to you...time to buy stamps again!
O Davene, you are the greatest! I do love thee!
Yaquir
On a separate sheet of paper, which was a page torn off of a page-a-day Scripture verse calendar, he wrote this:
O my Happy,
As another day passes, all my surroundings remind me of you... I love you, Davene. You are my sunshine, my sweetheart, my best friend, my confidence, my joy...so many things - thank you. I hope doing the invitations goes well for you today, I'll be thinking of you at work. I am sorry you won't be getting any mail while you are in Virginia [because he was sending all his letters to my college in Pennsylvania because I would soon be returning there].
I love you, Davene!
Jeffrey
2 comments:
How could I forget that you have moved your blog!?!?! But I did, somehow. This morning you crossed my mind and I thought "Hey, I haven't seen anything new on her blog in a long time, I hope she's ok!!" So I went to your old blog and found that you had moved and I hadn't put your new site into my following list yet. Now you're there so I can stay in touch again :) Yay! I can't wait to go back and read what I've missed!
Oh, yes, the tapes we used to make! I have so many made by friends, but have so few places to play them.
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