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You're beautiful because you're stronger than anyone thought. i expected all the pain of your previous wrecked relationships to eat you alive; i expected you to burtst into tears spontaneously everyday for the next decade... But wait. You pushed through it kelsey. You're hopefully happy and healthy now; and hope you refer to yourself as "I" rather than "we". I couldn't be prouder than how far you've come :)You're beautiful because you take risks. You substitued "who cares" for "what if" and stopped talking to the dark about how you would go out and do actually do it. You weren't afraid to take a crazy stupid chance on your dreams. You're an inspiration and you're real Kelsey. You're beautiful because you just don’t give a damn. You don’t need everyone to like you, agree with you or approve of you to feel good about yourself. You know that "good enough" is subjective, and that more often than not the subject doesn’t really matter anyway. I know you’ll never wake up suddenly 45 and nowhere, half your time and potential wasted on following someone else’s idiot advice. That’s the kind of thing that gives me hope for myself. You're beautiful because you taught me something invaluable that I would never have come to know on my own. You taught me that there are some things love does not conquer — that you can love someone with all your heart and skin and organs and it will change completely nothing. You gave me a practical lesson: that a relationship cannot be carried by only one of its halves. You're beautiful because you take pride in ironically showcasing that you’re not. You laugh at the silly standards of conventional beauty. You're beautiful because you’re brave. You know there’s more to life than measuring how long you have — you came face to face with your own mortality and turned to look the other way. You're beautiful because you believe in things. Even when it’s easier to be cynical, skeptical, hyper-rational, you keep believing because you know believing in things is what makes them real. You’re beautiful for that reason, because you can do something lots of people can’t. You're beautiful and you shouldn’t wait for someone else to tell you. You already know it, just see it. I've missed you so much too kels:)