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Contributed by: Natalie Dybzinski on 2/6/2007

When I, Natalie,was 10 years old, a family with three boys joined the church that my family and I were going to. Our families got along very well and I was especially close with the two younger boys. Jared, who was three years older than me, and Jacob, who was a year younger than me.

Jacob and I were in school together and I had a little crush on him. However, since I had two brothers as well, Jacob and my brothers would always play together. The adults would hang out, and Jared and I would end up just hanging out together.

I always admired Jared and thought he was handsome and smart and a good athlete and nice and all of that. But, it wasn't until i was 15 that I really began to truly love him more than a friend. And it was mutual. We loved to sit and talk. We could talk for hours.

We were in the same youthgroup and loved laughing and listening to music and going used book store shopping and playing flag football with the other youth group kids and things like that. It soon became evident to many, including our parents, that there was definitely something more than just friendship between us.

There was an inseperable kindredness and love. But things became complicated because Jared would graduate from High School and go to Chicago for College. I would be left behind for three more years of High School.

My parents wanted me to enjoy having a normal high school experience, and so allowed Jared and I to only write letters (I have 3 binders full to prove it). Other than the brief visits home through the college years, that was our only method of fostering and keeping up with the relationship.

When I finally reached my freshman year of college, my Dad said that we needed to have 9 months of no communication to see if this relationship was really right. It is easy to have blind love when your only communication is letters.

And Jared had vision for doing long-term work overseas and my Dad wanted me to have unhindered time to really think about the cost of that. So we did it. 9 months of really seeking the Lord to see what he had. It was hard. Both of us always wondering if the other got tired of waiting and was in another relationship.

But at the end of it, Jared came home from a long trip that he had been on that summer, our affection was mutual and still as strong as ever. Jared sought permission that week from my Dad to date me and we began that week. He finished his last semester of college with hours of phone calls long distance with me and then moved back home to have a normal dating relationship.

3 months later, he proposed with the most romantic proposal. He blindfolded me and took me down to a river in the mountains, set up with candles and everything. He proposed, and then took me onto a horse for a candle light dinner in a cabin.

Then we came down the mountain and celebrated with our families, who were now finally excited about the relationship and rejoicing with us. Now we are married, living in our sweet yellow cottage on the park. We always agree that no one probably has a story as romantic and perfect and timely as ours.

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Natalie Dybzinski

Windsor , CO

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