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Every morning I check two things: the time, and whether I still get to love you. So far, the answer is always yes.
Send this as a love noteI have been to many places, but my favourite is still the space right next to you.
Send this as a love noteIt's the small things — the way you laugh at your own jokes, the way you say my name — that make my whole day.
Send this as a love noteOut of all the people in this busy city, I found you. I'm still counting my luck.
Send this as a love noteYou are not a place, but every time I'm with you, I'm home.
Send this as a love noteThank you for the little things you think I don't notice. I notice. I always do.
Send this as a love noteIf I could fold my whole heart into an envelope, I would seal it with wax and post it to you every single day.
Send this as a love noteWhatever the question is today — the answer is still you.
Send this as a love noteI didn't fall for you in one moment. I fell a little every day, until there was nothing left that wasn't yours.
Send this as a love noteWherever you are tonight, look up. The same sky is holding both of us, and I'm thinking of you.
Send this as a love noteOf all the stories I could tell, the best one starts with the day I met you.
Send this as a love noteThrough the busy days and the quiet nights, through traffic and through rain — still you. Always you.
Send this as a love noteIf my heart could write, this whole letter would just be your name, over and over.
Send this as a love noteI wrote your name in ink, because I never meant to erase it.
Send this as a love noteEven in the harmattan, when the whole city turns to dust and haze, you are the one clear thing I can see.
Send this as a love noteYou arrived the way the first rain does: the air changed, the ground softened, and everything in me began to grow.
Send this as a love noteWhen the power goes and the street falls quiet, I don't miss the light. I have the sound of you breathing beside me.
Send this as a love noteMy thoughts drift out like the tide each morning, and like the tide, they always find their way back to you.
Send this as a love noteI have started this letter a hundred times. Every version ends the same way: with your name, and a heart too full to say more.
Send this as a love noteSomewhere between your laugh and your silence, I found a map of every place I want to go.
Send this as a love noteYou are the soft light that comes through the window before the day gets loud, the part of the morning I would wake early for.
Send this as a love noteSome words are too precious to say out loud. So I fold them, seal them, and send them to the only one who holds the key: you.
Send this as a love noteYou never asked me to change. You simply loved me, and I grew toward you the way flowers lean toward the sun.
Send this as a love noteWith you, even silence sounds like a song I already know the words to.
Send this as a love noteIf memories were letters, I would keep every one of ours in a box by my bed and read them on the long nights.
Send this as a love noteWhen the sun goes down over the lagoon and the water turns to gold, I always think: this is how you look to me.
Send this as a love noteI don't need grand moments. Give me ordinary days with you, and I will make poems out of every one.
Send this as a love noteIf love were music, ours would be the slow song at the end of the night, when everyone has gone home and we keep dancing anyway.
Send this as a love noteYou are the ink and I am the paper. Without you, I am only empty pages waiting for a story.
Send this as a love noteI have lost my way more times than I can count. Somehow, every road still bends back toward you.
Send this as a love noteLove, to me, is a small flame you shelter through every storm. I will keep ours burning.
Send this as a love noteSeasons change, cities change, we change. But the way my heart turns when you walk into a room has never changed once.
Send this as a love noteTonight the stars look like letters no one ever posted. I'm sending this one, so mine reaches you.
Send this as a love noteThis letter is to inform you that you have been officially selected as my favourite person. No appeals allowed.
Send this as a love noteSide effects of loving you include: smiling at my phone, forgetting what I was saying, and wanting jollof for two.
Send this as a love noteYour package of hugs is out for delivery. Expected arrival: the moment I see you.
Send this as a love noteBy reading this, you agree to let me love you, annoy you a little, and steal your fries forever.
Send this as a love noteFact: you are the reason my screen time is so high. I regret nothing.
Send this as a love noteThank you for seeing me — not the version I show the world, but the real one. You make it safe to be me.
Send this as a love noteLove isn't only a feeling for me. Every day, on purpose, I choose you.
Send this as a love noteI don't want a perfect love. I want ours: the one where we keep learning each other and growing together.
Send this as a love noteOn the hard days, I hope you remember this: you are not carrying it alone. I'm right here.
Send this as a love noteI watch you chase your dreams and I'm so proud I can hardly say it out loud. So I'm writing it down.
Send this as a love noteI don't know everything about the future. But I know I want you in all of it.
Send this as a love noteYears ago today, the world got you. Later, I got lucky. Happy birthday to my favourite gift.
Send this as a love noteMake a wish and blow out the candles. Mine already came true the day I met you.
Send this as a love noteAnother year older, and somehow even more beautiful. Happy birthday. I'm so glad I get to love you through every one of them.
Send this as a love noteOn your birthday I wanted to give you something you can keep forever: these words. You make my life brighter every single day.
Send this as a love noteCake, candles and all my love. The cake will be gone by tonight; the love stays.
Send this as a love noteOf all the days in the year, this one is my favourite, because it's the day you arrived.
Send this as a love noteHappy birthday! You're another year older, and I'm another year more in love. I think I'm winning.
Send this as a love noteFor every candle on your cake, here is one reason I love you. We're going to need a bigger cake.
Send this as a love noteToday isn't only about getting older. It's about celebrating everything you are, and you are so much.
Send this as a love noteHere's to your laugh, your kindness, your big dreams, and a year ahead that is waiting to be wonderful. Happy birthday.
Send this as a love noteMay this be the year your prayers are answered, your plans come together, and you feel just how loved you are.
Send this as a love noteMy birthday wish for you: more peace, more joy, more good surprises, and me right beside you for all of it.
Send this as a love noteAnother year of your laugh, your patience and your love. I would choose every single day of it again.
Send this as a love noteSince the day we started, my life has had a new favourite chapter. Happy anniversary, my love.
Send this as a love noteI stopped counting the days a long time ago. Now I just count the ways you make me happy.
Send this as a love noteYears later, you are still my easiest yes.
Send this as a love noteThank you for being the friend who picks up on the first ring, laughs at my worst jokes, and tells me the truth when I need it.
Send this as a love noteWe didn't grow up under the same roof, but you became family anyway. I'm so grateful I get to call you my friend.
Send this as a love noteThrough every season, the good, the broke and the confusing, you stayed. That means more than I ever say.
Send this as a love noteGood news, bad news, random news: you're always the first person I want to tell.
Send this as a love noteI see how hard you work and how big your heart is. I'm proud to be your friend.
Send this as a love noteIf friendship had awards, you'd win Best Supporting Friend, Funniest Voice Note, and Most Likely to Show Up With Food.
Send this as a love noteLife gets busy and we don't always talk every day, but you are never far from my thoughts.
Send this as a love noteSome of my hardest days were lighter because you were in them. Thank you for that.
Send this as a love noteYears go by, but with you it always feels like we're picking up exactly where we left off.
Send this as a love noteThank you for cheering for me even when I didn't believe in myself. I'm cheering for you, always.
Send this as a love noteHappy birthday to the friend who makes life louder, funnier and kinder. May your year be as good as you are to everyone around you.
Send this as a love noteNo special occasion. I just wanted you to know that I appreciate you, and I'm lucky to have you.
Send this as a love noteThe distance is long, but my love travels faster than any flight. Until I'm next to you again.
Send this as a love noteThere is an empty seat beside me that only fits you. It's waiting, and so am I.
Send this as a love noteEvery day apart is one day closer to seeing you. I'm counting down.
Send this as a love noteJust a small letter to say: I'm thinking of you, right now, and smiling.
Send this as a love noteI got it wrong, and I'm sorry. You matter more to me than being right. Let me make it up to you.
Send this as a love noteI wasn't at my best, and you deserved better. Can we start again — this time with more listening from me?
Send this as a love noteConsider this letter a peace offering. Small chops and a long hug to follow.
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