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We’ve gone back and forth, crossing the ocean for a love that has no borders, but with COVID-19, here we are two years later, in love and caught in limbo.

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I would be lying if I sat here and wrote about all the ways long distance is easy in hopes that you would believe me. I wouldn’t be lying, however, if I told you all the reasons it’s difficult and beautiful and worth it.

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You communicate by tagging each other in memes or cute Facebook posts.

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Oftentimes, people choose to leave behind some of the best relationships that they had because they are told that long distance relationships never work. 

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I once offered to move and he would tell me not to do that for him. It was just as I suspected — he wasn’t ready, and he was seeing other people.

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I used to count the days when I would get to meet you, to hold you, to hear you laugh in person, and to finally make memories.

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When we got together, we never thought that it would become a long distance relationship.

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You think that breaking up would be simple — falling out of love, constant fighting, blaring incompatibility. But what about the slow fade?

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Long distance is freaking hard.

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No one said it was going to be easy.