Dear Yulia,

I must be honest, the first thing I do when I receive your Emails, is scroll to the bottom to look at the photos first. Then with your image in my mind, I read your words. The photos you sent yesterday are stunning. You are an incredibly beautiful woman. I adore the photo of you in the blue dress. You look very classy, elegant and sophisticated. Every photo you send is wonderful, and I enjoy seeing all of your different styles. Thank you so much for continuing to write me.

Yes, I missed you as well. You know, I was thinking about something. It is somewhat unfortunate that the time zones we are in mean that we are almost exactly opposite as far as day and night. When it is my day, it is your night, and when it is your day, I am sleeping, dreaming of you :) Right now as I write this, I hope that you are sleeping well and dreaming of pleasant things.

I am glad that you told me how you feel. It does not frighten me. Maybe I am a little surprised since we have not been communicating for very long (around 10 days I think). I mentioned before that I have not been in love before. Honestly, I am not sure what love is, or if I can feel it. But, in just a short amount of time, you have become very important to me, and I feel very lucky to have such a wonderful woman like you now in my life, even if we haven’t met in person. Actually, being able to meet you in person someday has given me new motivation, and something to look forward to in the future. Before, I didn’t really have much to look forward to. In fact, my life had become rather boring and dull. Now it is much more interesting with you :) Yes, I also think about what it would be like to spend even just one day with you. I would like to go walking with you, and maybe hold your hand (if this is OK with you) to see what it feels like. I think that it would feel very nice to have you by my side.

Last night, I watched a Russian movie: “The Irony of Fate (or enjoy your bath)”. I have read that this is a very popular Russian film that many people watch around New Years. Have you seen this film? I thought it was good, and very funny, and romantic. I have to admit that I did not understand all of the dialogue (some of the English subtitles were confusing to me), but I understood enough to enjoy it. They fell in love in 1 night on New Years Eve, so perhaps it is possible to fall in love in 10 days after all ;)

Yulia, I am thinking about you all day today. I wish that I could hold your hand, and hug you. Thank you for all the kind words.

Ryli