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I'm active duty in the Air Force (how's that for a first assignment?) while my boyfriend is in the Air National Guard and going to college in Washington State. After having known him for about 5 months (3 of those as legitimately just good friends and cohorts) I got shipped off to England (great first assignment, though). Anyway, a couple thousand miles of distance don't make it terribly easy to get to know each other better, but we'd gotten off to a great start and there was never any way either of us would have considered giving up that easy. Aside from writing frequent letters and emails, and sending more typical boyfriend/girlfriend gifts like jewelry and footballs, we've sent each other random little trinkets- I have a guitar pick with "I love you" in glow in the dark paint, a very worn, duct tape (his signature fix-it-all) wrapped deck of playing cards with the Mountain Dew design (it's his signature drink), an antenna ball, some dried sprigs of sage (which is most of the plant life around Spokane, where he lives) a battered lizard keychain and innumerable random clippings, stickers and sketches. It's little things like that which become treasures. He sent me a mix cd full of love songs- MXPX variety emo-punk love songs, granted, but somehow even sweeter because of the freshness of it, because it's his kind of music that he's always listened to and meant more to him (and therefore to me) than some old crooning slow stuff would have. He really hates having his picture taken, but because when I finally made it out to his family's place I mentioned he looked really good in this old fleece-lined army jacket of his Grandpa's, he later had his sister take a bunch of photos of him in the jacket (he even smiled on camera!) and sent them to me. On Valentines day, he couldn't have roses sent to me (me living on a military base and all) so he drew me a page full of roses and sent them in a letter. And he claims he's not a romantic... I also have his football jersey from high school, which is very comforting to cuddle up with while reading or watching movies or going to sleep. I remember when I opened the package he sent it in I thought I could smell the slightest scent of him the instant I opened it and thought I was just being pathetic until I spotted the jersey. If you can find a way to subtly include your scent in some present- do it. 'S magical. (From Rachael)
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