Our Hard 'Separation'

"Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity,

 eternity can be the tick of a clock."

 (Mary Parrish)
 

After being together filled with joy for nearly 2 weeks, it was time for us to go back to our own countries. It's so hard to be apart right after we met in person and got married. We often cried at night, realizing that we had to leave each other soon.

Dennis came with 'crazy thought' when I was crying in his arms 2 nights before our departure date. He said that maybe we should just stay there and become beggars so we could be together always! Well... we already got warm clothes, we just need to find a dog to accompany us so we could hug it and keep ourselves warm at night... it really sounded like a fun idea !

But we realized that it was impossible. We had better life waiting for us if we just be strong and go through the immigration process. As we have planned, I will join him in USA after we get married. Dennis had brought all the papers that we need to fill out to bring me home to his country. We spent our last day by filling them out so Dennis could send them as soon as possible. It was quite 'painful' paperwork ! Lots of stuff to be filled and prepared, but we managed to get it done !

Finally the sad day came. I packed all of our stuff, including a big brown bear Dennis' bought for me in Canada that made my bag became even bigger. Dennis would fly back first to US at early morning because he had to go back to work Sunday night.

We arrived at the airport a bit early. Dennis checked in and we sit together, waiting for his departure time. I filled out his immigration papers and tried to cheer him up. It did not work very well though, we knew that in just a matter of minutes we would be half way around the world again... we were so sad and depressed... but we tried to be strong and promised that we will be together forever no matter what.

Dennis hugged me hard before he left, made sure that I had kept myself warm, kissed me and told me to leave. I looked at him for the last time before I went, then I ran to the door with tears, forced myself not to look back... afraid that if I looked back, I would never be able to let him go...

I caught a taxi back to the hotel and returned to the airport 5 hours later, just to know that my flight would be delayed until tomorrow morning because of thick fog ! Luckily the airlines provided us with hotel and allowed us to make 1 overseas call to inform our families. I called Dennis that night and he was surprised to hear that I was still in Canada. He wished me a nice flight tomorrow and asked me to call him back when I get home.

I met an old man from Malaysia on my flight back to Jakarta. His name is Sam and he was about at the same age as my dad. He was very friendly and nice, he gave me many useful advice for our marriage and my future life in USA. I am very thankful to him for all of his helps. He wished me happiness and success before we went to our own home countries.

I got home late at night on December 2. I called my husband right away to tell him that I was home and safe. He was so relief about that. We were sad because we were apart again... but at least we have found each other and got married... that is the greatest moment of our lives...

And we know one thing for sure: We will be together again and it will be forever...

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