In haste: I am reading all of this and loving it. (It is also a great distraction from the thing that is taking up all my time right now, which is trying to figure out various cancellations, etc.)

I *promise* more later, but I had to comment on this:

I cannot adequately render the emotion that moves inside me, but I am his, utterly and completely.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh oh Lehndorff, you are the most adorably smitten guy ever, we should all be as lucky to be as adorably and passionately in love as you after thirty years <333333333