the boy is back



it's a long, incredible, painful, beautiful, sacred story. but yes, he's back. we are in love

and for my birthday weekend, the boy took me to yosemite. it was spectacularly beautiful.

the best is yet to come :) 

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  1. Oh my goodness! I am so happy for you! You look so happy!

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  2. Thank goodness! If he branches out on the pizza toppings, he's a keeper this time around :-)

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  3. I know it's weird because I don't know you at all but I'm truly so happy for you both!!

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  4. This is a post of pure happiness and I love it! I have been following your journey and that smile of yours shines so bright in these photographs! After a hard day of interviewing, this has actually made me smile.

    From a 'friend' in England :)

    Anna

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  5. Ahhhhh Charity! I have a huge smile on my face. Holy moly. Been wondering who that admirer was...

    --From your anonymous atheist reader in NYC :)

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  6. You deserve so much love! When reading about your heartache, I could feel how deep the grief was. How lovely that you ended up here!

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  7. You look so happy! Details, please!

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  8. Oh my....OH MY!!! Best news ever!! Your face...your smile...your eyes!! Nothing but pure joy in those pictures. I am with Ellie....details!!

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  9. You don't know me, but I follow your blog religiously! Details please!!

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  10. I have followed your blog for years, and when I saw this post, I cried!! So happy for you!

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  11. YES!!!! You are radiating happiness and so is he! I'm glad it is working out the way it's supposed to! Natalie from UT

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  12. Oh Charity, my heart swelled when I saw that title and the very first picture! So lovely!

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  13. Wow! I'm so excited for you-all the way from Melbourne, Australia

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  14. Wow!! This is pure awesomeness!!! I'm so stoked for you!!!

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  15. yay yay yay! so the boyfriend you were telling your students about was the same boy all along. how sneaky of you! are those wedding bells i hear in the distance...

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  16. This is so wonderful! Much happiness to you both!

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  17. Does this mean I can post? LOVE YOU BOTH!

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  18. I'm another one also from faraway Melbourne Aus soo happy for you

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  19. This is brill:) I'm really happy for you & I'm looking forward to reading about the next part.

    I really wish I could find someone special to share my life with. I would treasure him so much.

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  20. He was a fool to let you go the first time! So happy for you! Like others said, we never met, but I've gotten quite 'attached' to you and your blog updates :) Here's to a wonderful life with a wonderful (albeit at first quite idiotic ;)) boy!

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  21. Oh, Charity, what joyful news! May your love story bring you both nothing but happiness and eternal blessings from here on out!

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  22. You don't know me at all but this makes my heart sing, I am SO SO HAPPY for you. So happy. xxx

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  23. What wonderful news.
    I was so excited to see the title of this post ..

    Another Australian reader ..

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  24. What fabulous news! I love your blog, and this news has made me feel so happy for you, Charity. From an avid Sydney, Australia reader!

    And can I just say, great to see so many Aussie readers of your amazing and uplifting words!

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  25. Random reader here but I've enjoyed reading about your journey, especially since I grew up in the Bay Area but moved away last year.

    I am so excited for you! My husband and I dated for a couple years, broke up, reunited and will celebrate 8 years of marriage next month. Wishing you and the boy the same happiness!

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  26. Oh man I¨m just grinning my face off at work! JEJ JEJ JEJ!

    lots of love from Finland!

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  27. ditto what *ehu. said - - - so totally stoked. pure awesomeness.

    -beth

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  28. Love this!!!!!! Congrats :=)))))

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  29. I might be the only one who isn't completely ecstatic. Considering how heartbroken you were and how better you recently seemed (or was he already back?), I really hope he is sure about getting back together.

    But both of you do look very happy and I wish you all the best. And it took my boy three months from our first kiss until we started a relationship. Afterwards we've dated for almost ten years and married last year.

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  30. I notice thatthe enthusiastic comments are from folks that know you through your blog and there is a lack of comments from family and friends. I wonder if the people in your life are feeling protective of you for good reason? I was in a very intense "on again off again" relationship and the love was true (still is?). I'd like to warn you of the complicated cycle you are embarking on. If he's back to stay I suggest making a commitment now.

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  31. woah woah woah amazing!!! Your pics are sooo good - isn't it magical there? So happy to hear your lovely news! Hope you had an awesome birthday x

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  32. Boy has some splanin' to do. Just kidding! So happy for you two!

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  33. charity, this is joy! hope you overlook a couple of previous commenters -- no one who's fully soaked up the honesty, loveliness, intentionality, grit, and depth you so generously share on your blog would ever doubt your ability to navigate your wide-open, indescribably gorgeous heart.

    love abounds ~

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  34. Clearly I'm not the first to say this, but YAY! I'm so happy for you, that's awesome. You both look SO happy :)

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  35. I hope you don't take my comment as mean! I was just cautious. But like I said, you look happy and I wish you the best!

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  36. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!!!! Such good news, I hadn't checked your blog for a while, and you will not believe this Charity, but I had just received an email from a heartbroken cousin, and as I was reading it, I was reminded of you, and I thought 'I wonder how that Charity is doing' so I opened your blog and my jaw just dropped open... Wow, I really think this is an sign from above- this means my cousin will get her guy back, too!!!
    You and him look so good together, you two are unimaginably perfect in every sense of the word!!!

    All my Love to both of you!

    -Your Favorite Reader

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  37. This is Charity's protective Dad....just checking in and saying that the Boy, against all odds, won me over completely and I am a total believer in his come-back! It's one thing to make a mistake, but its something quite wonderful to rectify and redeem and redirect, and he has done so!
    Profoundest blessings to this great, world class and world changing couple!
    Dad Eyre

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  38. Love the reply from your dad Charity- you have an amazing family...love all your blogs- from me in Melbourne, Australia

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  39. And you might probably know them better than some stranger on the internet. :-)

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  40. Lovely comment from your Dad/Richard.

    Have a lovely 4th of July:)

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  41. I read your blog for about a year now, and I just wanted to say that I'm truly happy for you, it's an amazing news.
    Whishing you all the best.
    Noa from Israel.

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  42. Dear Charity,

    Please take this with a grain of salt. This man is not the right man for you. You may be in love but I do not see you to ever being married.
    He is all wrong for you.

    Seek a man with integrity like your sweet Dad.
    Annie from Canada

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  43. My second comment today, but I just wanted to say that you look like your sister Shawni from 71toes and with the way you described teaching, I really think you're like her on the inside, too- she is a woman of grace and I just think she's your future- I see you raising your own future kids with the same grace and elegance she does.

    (Does the teacher in you want to reprimand me for my one over-extended sentence which should've been broken into 3 or 4? Sorry:P)

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  44. There is no sin or character flaw in breaking up with someone. Whether they are meant for each other only they can decide.

    Good Luck.

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  45. Congrats!! I love your dad's comment!

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  46. Your smiles are priceless. Your dad rocks. I will tell you I don't know you but enjoy reading your blog. I knew he would be back in your life. Best of luck.

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  47. You don't know me but I follow your blog. I am a grandmother and married for 45 years. The same thing happened in our relationship and we both dated others and in a few months we were back together and married shortly after. I always maintained that as painful as the breakup was, our marriage was stronger because of that. I am of the same faith as you and I feel like many of the men take the commitment of marriage very seriously in almost wanting a heavenly revelation to tell them who and when to marry :) I was so happy to see you are back together and I wish you both the very best.

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  48. Hi, to everyone who has left comments, weather positive or negative - you'll defenetely want to read Charity's next post.

    I won't spoil it, but let's just say that it's VERY exciting news:)

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  49. AAAAAAAAAAH! That is the scream I yelled out loud in my kitchen this am with a smile on my face,surrounded by my 3 children who looked at their mother with wondering eyes at why I was so happy:) I told them of the perfect love story of a girl falling deep in love then having her heart broken then the boy coming back and they are now both deeply in love! I don't know you, but I feel like I do and I am so so so happy for you! God bless you both :) and AAAAAHHH:) :):)

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