Chapter IX “My love, I never thought I’d call you that. Especially not in a mushy letter, but here we are… It took me an eternity to realize it, how I felt about you. Somehow, it’s not that big of a shock. I should have realized I loved you, probably from the moment I met you. You should have known. The entire world should have known. But now it’s a little too late and a little too hard to believe, isn’t it? I do love you, with all my heart. And you know, so everything else is irrelevant. I just felt like telling you, admit it for once, own it. I remember a sunny afternoon in Amsterdam, during our first and only month as a couple, when you were trying to get in the mood to write and you were playing this cheesy love song over and over again. You were watching its video (funny how it h

