Do you guys remember me telling you about my friend ‘A’ who fell in love with a US army guy? If you want to refresh your memory you can read the post here.

In a nutshell, they met/chatted online/developed a relationship etc. When the post I wrote last time ended, she was about to fly to Germany, to meet him IRL right before he was due to ship out to Kuwait, and then be deployed to Afghanistan. That was August 23rd last year.

SO to pick up where we left off, they met in real life, in Germany last year, spent two glorious weeks totally in love, together, and made some long term plans to keep in touch, and keep the flame burnin’ y’all, and then he shipped out, she came home, where she remained resolutely faithful to him despite striking up good friendships with some locally stationed marines who were, to say the least. Freakin’ hot. But faithful she stayed and their long distance relationship flourished despite the distance, and the fact that he was in a war zone with all the associated problems of being in a war zone, like limited communication etc

ANYHOO…so…sometime earlier this week, I saw her facebook update, say something to the effect of ‘Boy delayed in Kuwait, not sure what the hold up is…will wait to hear from him.’ or something like that.

SO, fast forward to yesterday evening…when another photographer friend of hers called her to say he was coming over a for a cup of tea, and so she opens the door to let him in, and then getting out of the car in the driveway was….THE BOY!!!! (she calls him the boy, but let’s face it the guy has been to both Iraq and Afghanistan and seen way too much action so he really is a man).

How incredibly romantic was that!? He kept it a total secret, by telling her he was on his way home to the States to spend his leave time there and see his mom etc, all the while organising with her friends to be able to surprise her!

Isn’t that like the best thing ever? It’s way more uplifting than hearing about Michael Jacksons passing. Which I viewed with some skepticism this morning. I don’t know if he *did* do what he *did* or not, but his music was good, so I’m sorry to hear about it. And that’s all I have to say about that.

Back to my friend, I saw her status update this morning saying , “He’s Here.” Okay it was more like “He’s HEEEEEEEEEEERE!!!!!” and I thought, ‘no way’, until I called her for all the juicy details, and she confirmed that he had in fact surprised her to such an extent that she nearly fainted when she saw him, saying that her knees totally gave way and she had to hold onto a nearby wall

The whole idea of it, has got me grinning like a cheshire cat this morning, it’s so wonderfully romantic, and surprising, and happy. She totally deserves the happiness too, I might add.

Okay, I’ll leave you all with that thought, and now, go and try and find a radio station that isn’t playing Michael Jackson this morning…

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