A Letter for You

Dear Evan,

You are the most amazing boyfriend this planet has ever seen. Who else would take the time to send their girlfriend and obscenely expensive care package full of the candy she loves, the baking goods she hasn't been able to find, and the smells she misses most. Smells! A ziploc bag full of the spices you use when you're cooking for me. I can open that up and be home for a moment.

I had a dream that you introduced me to your birth mother. She was a young blonde who lived in the sea and had no idea you were her son. You told me never to tell her, but only after I had sent a text message to a mermaid I went to high school with asking about her. We walked through the Arb to get to my parents' Warsaw house where they were throwing a party for all the teachers who had ever taught me, and you sang songs you had written for me with the Hootie voice that had made you famous.

Today I broke down and finally told my boss I was sick. And I do mean "broke down." I started crying, confessing everything about how scared I was that they were going to make me take the swine flu test and put me into quarantine and cost me hundreds of dollars. He took me to his private physician two doors down who spent five seconds looking down my throat and up my nose, declared a cold and blamed the Seoul air and my foreign lungs. Prescribed me a bucket full of pills and that was that. Total cost: 7 dollars.

I wanted you to know that today was a good Korea day. And that was mostly your doing. And I love you.

Adri

P.S. I got two new cousins today! Congratulations to Robert and Christie, and big siblings Olivia, Clara and Stefan - and welcome to this big, bright, messy world David and Maria!!!