Like parachutes and air balloons, like satellites and lonely moons...

...We'd still be drifting, far apart,
But thank the stars we are
Entwined...
-Jason Reeves

All of my beloved Audrey Hepburns, pining for a Paul Varjack but surrounded by Sally Tomato-s and super-rats - this is a message I really, really needed to hear two years ago. So now I am sending it to you:

He really exists.

I know it is so hard to believe sometimes - to hold on to the dream of a Prince [or, indeed, Princess!] when one is surrounded by frogs as far as the eye can see. I spent years and years waiting, and feeling alone. I almost gave up hope.

But you must keep the faith. Make your own dreams come true, but still wish upon stars. Stay true to the best in you. And, when you least expect it, the best person, the one worthy of the best in you, will appear - like the first day of spring.

And it will be everything you expected - the electrical kisses that send crackles through your body. The warmth of their body holding you through the night. The love letters and the flowers and the slow dances. It is all waiting for you, I promise.

And it will be a hundred and one things you didn't expect, too: how much you will make each other laugh, how you will fall in love with their freckles, the sledging in the snow and the swings in the playground and the squabbles. How they will become the air you need to breathe and the sunniest hour of every day - how you will love them so much it frightens you.

"Ah! It was worth while; it was the great joy that they had expected, and countless little joys of which they had never dreamt..."
-E.M. Forster

Rob Ryan really was right all along:

It really will come true. Gregory Pecks still exist, as long as you stay a Princess Anne. Please believe me, my darling.

"It’s clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another."
-Robert James Weller

How do I know? Lovely Kate asked me: "Have you ever met your true love?"

Yes, I have.

~

Love, tulips and parcels in the post xxx