I fell in love with you even more tonight...

...as I sat at the small table in the hip cafe of the anti-mall with my two friends staring lovingly back at me as we talked about everything, as we talked about us...

...as I walked down to the pandería this afternoon to get a sugary drink and realized I live in the blocks on Mariposa between Wilshire and 8th and you had found it on Google maps, with the McDonald's and RadioShack nearby...

...as Julia and I drove Grace out into the city for the first time, Josh Ritter's "Come and Find Me" playing on the stereo, and found there is a street just a few blocks parallel to here by the name of "Alexandria" and only if there was one less "i" in it, it would be a whole street dedicated to you, so close to me...

I fell in love with you even more tonight...

...as we drove beneath the beautiful looping of overpasses and freeways near downtown LA and Julia said they looked futuristic and I thought they looked like dinosaurs and she said she wanted to go the Natural History Museum and I thought I could take you there...

...as I thought of writing you love letters and sweet emails and how you get me and how we understand each other and how each time I write something I feel in a space so intimate it's as if you were curled up next to me...

...as I came back to the apartment tonight, took a deep breath as I entered the door and thought yeah, this could be home, at least for a while, at least with these bright colors...

I fell in love with you even more tonight...

...as I know that writing this to you tonight will make me fall that much more in love with you, and knowing you'll receive it when you wake in the morning will bring a smile to your face, and that that will be enough to make me rise in the morning and peer out my bathroom window at the sunshine and the smog and the skyscrapers and be so glad to be alive with you...