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One of my lifetime goals for the future is to visit every U.S. state before I die. Before I continue, I must say that this ingenious idea was not completely my own. My fiancé Joshua approached me with it one day when we were on the phone, like many long-distance lovers are, talking about our future until three 'o'clock in the morning.
Now, at first I was dumbfounded as to how on God's green Earth we were going to be able to afford a trip to some state or another. I started rambling in an anxious panic with utterances like, "I am going to be in college for a very long time, and you just landed your full-time job, and you haven't even seen a day of your $2.00 raise you are supposed to be getting and..."
That's when he shushes me. I sit there, as quiet as a mouse, looking like a freshly scolded child. "Don't think about all that stuff. It's just stuff. We will find a way, we always do." I sat there bewildered as to how this man could apply such as cool, calm, go-with-the-flow type attitude to absolutely everything in life. Meanwhile, I would be watching myself have a nervous breakdown in my head concerning, "How am I going to buy my books, or get this assignment done on time, or talk to my parents without exasperating every cuss word in the book?"
He simply whispered gently through the earpiece and into my rather reddened ears, "Calm down, breathe. It's gonna be alright." Of course, I would sit there, nearly in tears, and take a half-hearted deep breath. He continues, "Now, where is the first place that you would wanna go?" I reply with a slight grin, "Indiana." To fill the rest of you in, this would be where my fiancé currently resides. I could go on and on about how we met, why we decided to become a couple, and how we are still together, however I shall leave that for another day.
I sat there thinking, my head started spinning as I pictured all of these beautiful scenes in my head: clear streams flowing up and over onto a freshly blooming pasture, crisp mountainsides topped with dribbles of glistening snow, and an arid desert filled with crackly roads and green cacti. A huge smile formed upon my face as I shouted, "I'm in!"
