AUTHOR'S NOTE

I wanted to include Andy's vows, but they were so short, and there wasn't much time for her to express her thoughts in between the words she said out loud. I don't know if I did them justice – I hope so.

Oh, Sam, those are the most beautiful vows I've ever heard. And I don't have anything even close to them to say to you. How can I even tell you how important you are to me, how much I love you, and that I want to spend the rest of my life with you? Well, here goes, one thought at a time.

I had the greatest vows ever – and I can't find them. I know, I know – everybody thinks I'm so organized with my lists and plans. I don't have any idea what happened to them.

So, here I am, looking at you, and this is what I know: I have loved you since the moment I saw you. From the very first day I knew that we had a connection. And no, it wasn't that I tried to kiss you.

Loved you, and feared you. Oh, no, not like being afraid of you! Never that. Well, not you, but this – I have been terrified to love this profoundly. You know how hard it was for me to open my heart. I couldn't be hurt if I kept myself closed off.

But not anymore. For good and for bad, for great and for hard, for dreams, and the truth behind the dreams, I am here. I am yours. You know that, you must have always known it.

Sam Swarek, I choose you. This is – you are - my decision, because I just can't imagine my life without you in it. I tried to live that way, and it was awful.

And I promise to honour you, and cherish you. That won't be hard. And while I will not obey you, per se...You didn't really think that I would, did you? Or actually want me to?...I will always hear you. And I will keep loving you one moment after another, one epiphany at a time.

Were those OK? Do you understand what I was trying to say?