It's been three years since the first day I saw Myra Sandoval.
How could I have known that this woman standing in front of me would change my life and that, that moment would be the beginning of an amazing journey into my heart and into hers? How could I have known that this would be the woman to change the way I see love, the way I see the world, the way I see myself? That she would challenge me beyond anything I have faced before? That she would inspire me to be better? That she would open my eyes? That she would grab my hand and pull me along on adventure after adventure?
I couldn't have, of course. But I knew there was something special about this woman. Something scary, something beautiful, something I had to have.
Now as I stand here looking at this woman, who has moved from being in front of me to being by my side, I still don't know what the future holds. But she is still scary, beautiful and something I have to have.
She is a gift. I love her.