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My 10,500 Mile Long-Distance Relationship
It was the Tumblr days, it’s still going sure, but these were the days when people would openly say “oh yeah I saw that on Tumblr”. I was about 16; also the time I started to transition from female to male socially.
I came across the blog of a girl who’d caught my eye, she had the same emo-style as me, liked exciting music, and she posted some pretty funny stuff in between her dark personal posts. She was an enigma to me. When we started talking, like actually messaging directly instead of using that old ask-box system, it didn’t take long for us to fall pretty hard for each other, the only problem? She was over 10,500 miles away from me.
We would message each other every. Single. Day. I kid you not; we once had a 14-hour long Skype video call. If we didn’t message, something was terribly wrong, like a suicide attempt. That’s to say, we both had our issues.
There’s a quote from a book-adapted movie I love that sums up how we both approached the relationship:
“You can’t just sit there and put everyone’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love.” — Stephen Chbosky
What can I say, we were young. However, that tempestuous relationship lasted for two years before we eventually met in person for the first time. The years of Skyping, letter sending and messaging lead…
