Hey Bub,

We have been together for 23 months, and here are 23 reasons I love you. It was really hard to pick just 23, but here it is.

23 Reasons I Love You

Chloe

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Reason 1

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The Way You Say My Name

I never told you this, but I really love it when you say my name. You can't really say it the way an Indian would, you say it with this exaggerated 'a' and it comes out sounding so cute. It's so cute and it melts my heart every single time. You should do it more, like call me Arjun on our calls. I love it so much. I hope we're together for so long and you still never learn to say my name right, because I love it exactly the way you say it.

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Reason 2

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Your Hugs & Cuddles

I want to hug you and I want to cuddle you and I want to spoon you and I want you to sleep on my arm and I want to hug you so tight that you can't breathe. I really miss it so much. I want to hold you in my arms and sleep with you and keep on sleeping with you. You are the person I want to share my bed with forever.

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Reason 3

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How You Make Me Feel Safe

Around you, I feel free. I feel like I can be whoever I want and I can say whatever I want and I can express my thoughts and you won't mind. You make me so calm, you put my mind at so much peace, and I wish that I can do the same for you. I want to be someone you feel really safe around, whether it's sharing anything on your mind, talking to me, or even bringing up issues. I know I haven't been great at it, but I promise I will change this, and slowly you will feel so safe around me emotionally, as much as I feel around you.

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Reason 4

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Your Crying

I love every part of you, including your crying. It shows me how much you care, about me, about everyone else, about everything around you. You feel so much, and I was always stupid thinking "why are you crying so much" but I was just wrong, because it's a part of you and I love every single part of you. I want to be there for you every time you cry, and I want to make you feel better every time too. And it's a bonus that you look so exceptionally pretty after you cry, it's like I want to smother you with kisses all over your face until there is no spot left unkissed.

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Reason 5

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Your Strength & Courage

I am so fortunate that you trusted me enough to tell me so many things about your past. I am really proud of you and I really admire your courage, that despite such a traumatic childhood, you're going strong. And many times I haven't helped, and I'm sorry if you ever felt like I wasn't sensitive to things I should have been sensitive to. But I promise I won't do that anymore. You've been through so much in your life, and I'm really proud of you for still going strong and doing so amazing. I want to hold your hand and be there with you and help you heal from all of the past things, and even the things that I may have caused. I promise to always be sensitive, and we will do it together. I am with you all the way.

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Reason 6

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Your Energy

I don't even know how to describe it, but it's like, you get so, so happy about small things and then you sort of jump in happiness and excitement and you can't speak properly but you're just so happy and it melts my heart every single time. Like when we're in Pop Mart and you see something you like and you tell me "can I have this please please" and you're just looking at me with those eyes, and I just melt. I know that a lot of times I wasn't able to buy you those things but I promise I always will, whenever I can. I really love your energy and how happy you get. You make me feel at ease. Around you I feel like I can tackle anything, because I always know that no matter how shit life gets, these small things make you so happy and you make me happy. And together we will get through it.

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Reason 7

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Your Laugh

Your laugh is so loud and so contagious and every time you laugh, I can't help but laugh too. I want to hear you laugh every day.

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Reason 8

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How You Get Happy Over Little Acts

I love this so much about you. You get so happy from the most simple gestures, like if I hold your bag, or get you a vending machine drink, or a small chocolate, and then you just smile and wow, it's just so awesome. I wish I can make you happy every day, not just through these small acts but through everything. I want to always see you happy.

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Reason 9

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Your Accent

I've told you this many times before, but you sound so good. Like it's a song every time you speak. Your accent is so amazing, and I want to hear your voice and just keep on hearing it on loop forever.

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Reason 10

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The Smell of Your Hair

Hahahaha, so many conversations about this. I miss that smell. I always used to tell you it's not good and your hair doesn't smell good, but to be honest, I miss how your hair smells. I just want to kiss you on your head and then smell that hair forever. I love it so much.

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Reason 11

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The Way You Put Your Leg Above My Leg When We Sit

I don't know if I ever told you this but when we are sitting close and you put your leg over my leg, it just melts my heart. I wish I get the chance to experience that again. I love it so much. I want you to put your leg above mine, and I will put my hand on your thigh, and it will just bring me peace.

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Reason 12

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How You're Always Late

I love how you always, every single time, come late. It's so funny and I've grown to love it so much, like we have a full routine. I'll wake up and tell you "please don't be late, I have a lot to do today, just go get ready," and then I'll go to my room, and even when I'm not finished showering I'll start telling you "come to pantry." And in my heart I already know you're probably going to be late. And then I sit and wait for you until you finish getting ready. But at the end of the day, it's always worth it because you dress so good and you do so much makeup that it makes me proud to have you around. It's like, I'm walking with such a beautiful girl every day, the least I can do is wait for her to get ready.

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Reason 13

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Your Dressing Style

I really love the way you dress. It stands out a lot. Believe it or not, I'm not really used to seeing people dress the way you do, it's so different. I can't even explain it, it's just different. Like it's bold but at the same time it's normal but at the same time it's different. Sometimes I don't even agree with the proportions, like long loose top and a tight bottom haha, we've had so many conversations about this, but you make it work. It's because you are so pretty that everything looks good on you.

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Reason 14

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You Always Make Me Laugh

That's it. That's the reason. You just always, always make me laugh. No one else can do what you do.

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Reason 15

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Holding Your Bag

Hahahahaa, we have had so many fights about this, but it's so funny to me now because I miss it so much. I wish you were here. I want to hold your purple bag and take it with us to the library and even if it's heavy I want to hold it and I want to see your face light up when I do. I am so lucky to have held it and I wish I keep holding it for all time.

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I Can Never Be Bored With You

This one is so good, because I feel like we can never get bored. There are times when we're eating and sometimes have nothing to talk about because we already talked about everything, and that's okay, but I'm still never bored. The silence is comfortable, and I know we can always just watch reels, or watch Never Have I Ever, or some other show, or just go out and there's always so much to do. There are so many things I still have to do with you, and I will never be bored with you for a second, even after 50 years.

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Reason 17

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You're So Caring

You are just so caring that I feel like whatever happens, you will always be there for me. Even when I used to treat you badly (which will never happen again), and I felt sad or something happened, you used to always be there for me even then. I love that about you so much, you are always here for me. Please continue being here always.

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Reason 18

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Your Effort Into Occasions

You always put so much effort into occasions, like last Valentine's Day, my birthday last year, our anniversaries, everything. I want to spend so many occasions with you. I want to spend so many anniversaries, so many birthdays, and so many Valentine's Days with you, and I promise I will never take these days for granted again because they matter to you, and so they will matter to me too.

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Reason 19

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Your Lips

I want to kiss your lips and keep on kissing them until we get tired. I miss your lips and I miss your body and I want to make out with you. I was thinking today of that time when we were in so much passion that we actually went to the first floor bathroom and made out in the stall. Like that's so crazy. I want more passionate nights like those and I want to be the only guy that ever gets to kiss those lips again.

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Reason 20

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Your Body

Okay, I 100% mean this in a not-so-innocent way. I can't wait till you get back and we will have so much sex together. I miss your body so much. I want to hold you and I want to keep holding you and I want to make you feel things you haven't felt. I want to make out with you in the nights and in those moments of passion I want to feel you. I miss always getting hard every time we get into bed because you are irresistible. When you come back, I will make you feel things you didn't know you could feel. That's a promise.

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Reason 21

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Your Patience

You are so patient with me, like it's crazy. So many times I've done really bad things and I really regret all of it and I will never do it again, but at the end of the night you have always held me and we have made up, and I can't thank you enough for that. I want to be a better man for you, be that with my emotions, my looks, and everything. I want to be better for you, because you have been patient with me through the bad times, and I promise you that the bad times are over. If you are just patient with me one last time, everything will be okay and we will have an exceptional future together.

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Reason 22

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All Our Memories

I miss all our amazing memories. The moment we got together that night in Shenzhen outside that spot near the German bar. The times we used to spend in G209. The many times we used to order Keeta every day and study for exams. The entire Guangzhou trip, I remember that hotel so clearly where we used to cry so much but we used to hug so tight, and that's when I realized you are the girl for me and I want to stick by you forever. All of those times we used to go on dates and try tea time menus, or go to Shenzhen. Vietnam was the best trip ever, because it was with the love of my life. I miss all the times we ate those dumplings and watched Never Have I Ever. I miss all the nights when we're both tossing and turning and can't sleep and we would always end up hugging so tight. I miss you sleeping on my arm. I miss how cute you look every single day. We have so many memories that I can't even list them all here. I want to spend every day with you forever.

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Reason 23

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All of You

I love all of you. You are perfect. It doesn't matter if we fight or argue about some things, I want to spend my life making sure you realize that you are perfect. Everyone has flaws, but I don't see your flaws as flaws, they are you, I love you, so I love your flaws too. I know I haven't done the best job at this so far, but I will do that from now on, just trust me one last time baby.

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And Hopefully Many More to Come

Chloe, if you've made it this far, I hope you can feel even a fraction of what I feel for you. These 23 reasons are just the beginning, there are hundreds more I couldn't fit here, and thousands more I haven't discovered yet. I know I messed up. I know I hurt you, and I'm sorry, truly, deeply sorry. You deserved better from me, and I want to spend every day proving that I can be the person you need me to be. I know we are going through a tough time, but we will overcome this and be the best for each other. We have a lock of our love in Cheung Chau, I hope we go and see that when we are old and in love and we look back at this time thinking how silly we were to think about ending something so special. This isn't just a grand gesture or a one-time thing. This is my promise to you: I will keep showing up. I will keep loving you. I will keep this website live and every month we spend together, I will add another reason to it. I will keep adding reasons to this list until it's so long we'll need a whole library to hold them all. I love you, Chloe. I always have, and I always will.

Will you be my valentine?

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Forever yours, Arjun