It's been 2 and a half years already
Dec. 23rd, 2022 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyankoframeAnd they have been some of the happiest years of my life.
I'm so grateful that I met Harper in 2015 after I moved to Sacramento in 2014, and then became friends with her. She had a major health scare and had to be in hospital for quite a while followed by a long period of physical therapy, but her friend Elizabeth and I continued to visit her and reassure her that she wasn't alone.
I invited her to live with me as a housemate in 2019. It was a new and at times uncertain experience for both of us as we'd lived by ourselves for so long, but we figured out what worked best for each other and ourselves and got to know each other better. One thing led to another and by the beginning of 2020 we'd definitely started to be more than just friends.
And then Covid happened.
Covid upended a lot of things, but it also brought us closer. I was working from home, so I was at home every day and went out much less often than I had previously. We spent a lot more time together and watched TV shows like Midsomer Murders. I played the piano for her and she told me how much she liked my playing.
We were together for both good - the 2020 Presidential election, the Covid vaccines - and bad - Elizabeth's sudden death from a malignant brain tumor 3 weeks before her 63rd birthday, Harper falling ill and having to undergo physical therapy - and I have drawn closer to her and been more comfortable sharing more about myself with her.
Harper, I love you so very much and I am so blessed that you are my partner. This year is the first Christmas that I won't be there with you physically (being in Australia at the moment after meeting my family and cousins for the first time in a long time), but you are and will be always in my heart.
I'm so grateful that I met Harper in 2015 after I moved to Sacramento in 2014, and then became friends with her. She had a major health scare and had to be in hospital for quite a while followed by a long period of physical therapy, but her friend Elizabeth and I continued to visit her and reassure her that she wasn't alone.
I invited her to live with me as a housemate in 2019. It was a new and at times uncertain experience for both of us as we'd lived by ourselves for so long, but we figured out what worked best for each other and ourselves and got to know each other better. One thing led to another and by the beginning of 2020 we'd definitely started to be more than just friends.
And then Covid happened.
Covid upended a lot of things, but it also brought us closer. I was working from home, so I was at home every day and went out much less often than I had previously. We spent a lot more time together and watched TV shows like Midsomer Murders. I played the piano for her and she told me how much she liked my playing.
We were together for both good - the 2020 Presidential election, the Covid vaccines - and bad - Elizabeth's sudden death from a malignant brain tumor 3 weeks before her 63rd birthday, Harper falling ill and having to undergo physical therapy - and I have drawn closer to her and been more comfortable sharing more about myself with her.
Harper, I love you so very much and I am so blessed that you are my partner. This year is the first Christmas that I won't be there with you physically (being in Australia at the moment after meeting my family and cousins for the first time in a long time), but you are and will be always in my heart.
