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"   As students, my peers are conditioned to find logic and explanation for everything in existence. Therefore, you can imagine their surprise when they find out that you live across the country, let alone when they look at your picture and see cream-colored skin, baby blue eyes, and blonde hair. I assume they can&amp;#039;t exactly explain how love was able to keep an African American female from Stanford University and a Caucasian male from Appalachian State University together. The best explanation I can give is that you and I were blessed to be able to appreciate cultural differences without using them as determinants in our choices in friends and significant others. I know that I can&amp;#039;t hold your hand or give you a hug. I know that you can&amp;#039;t kiss me to shut me up when we&amp;#039;re fighting or take me out to dinner. But I reach out to you as far as I can because I promised you when we took this leap that I wasn&amp;#039;t letting go. We&amp;#039;ve stumbled our way through issues that have caused our grip to loosen, but the unveiling of hidden concerns gave us the boost we need to hold on even tighter. I know for a fact that I don&amp;#039;t need to fully understand love to know that you mean the world to me and I&amp;#039;ll work as hard as I have to keep you in my life because you are my support, my best friend, my rock. I love you. Always Yours, Brittany "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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