In This Heart: 1934

Chapter 7: First Anniversary

April 20, 1935

Dearest Juanita,

It's our 8th month today, and you have no idea how blessed I am that I have you. It's been eight months since you sealed our relationship through that passionate kiss under the glistening fireworks and stars. It's been eight months, and I know I got nothing much to say but thank you for trusting me. Thank you for loving me with all of your heart.

I know there are so many other deserving men out there, but here you are with me, staying through thick and thin. You never buckled down, and in every fight that we had, still, I know we could make it. That's how sure you are to me, and I don't think I am deserving of that kind of consistency.

You make me the happiest, Juanita. And I know that you made me your world as well. I really wish your Mom will allow you to find a job here so we could stay in one apartment and we'll spend the rest of our days and nights together. But I also know that parents have a say in their child and we got nothing to do but obey. Mom keeps calling me since last week, telling me important details that I keep ignoring.

I don't want to hear another rule of how she will run my life. I can't bear to listen to her decision that would leave me hanging and leave me with no other choice but to agree. I only want to spend my life here, away from everyone I know. I only want you to be the only person I get to be around forever, and I'll still call it a perfect life.

Anything with you makes life so indulging and worth living. I want to marry you as soon as time permits, but while we're still building our dreams and careers together, I want us to stay with each other. I want to witness your success because I believe you got the biggest potential, and I also want you to stay with me while I take baby steps towards making my dreams into reality. This is my ideal life -simple, fulfilling, and being with you.

This is the first time in my life that I have been so happy. I never knew how capable one person was to paint the rest of my life in all shades of happy colors. I don't know what I did right to deserve a woman as strong, loving, and caring as you, Juanita. I love you with all of my heart, and that would never change. I got nothing else to ask for because I only want you for me.

I hope our months will turn into years, and your years and our years will turn into a lifetime. I want to build a house with you, have a family with you. I want to have my first car, the first wall paints, first everything with you. You are my dream come true, Juanita. I love you, and that will remain true no matter what.

In love with you,

Your Anton