I wanted to take a minute to recognize the most important person in my life. Andersen Foxworthy Ritsch is the single most active person in making me who I am today. This man is amazing and he is the best friend, partner, boyfriend, and lover a person could ever ask for. Back in 2004 when I met Andy I was a normal sane person, but was unhappy in life. I had just left school and felt lost, but not a week after I got home from school Andy filled the void that I was feeling. He showed me how to really love a person and made my life complete again.

Now when he left I sorta let my life go to shit. I did really bad things to myself and that void in my life came back. I searched in every way possible to fill that void but nothing could make me as happy as I was with him. No amount of money, sex, lust, drugs, alcohol, friends, or work could fill the void I was feeling inside. I screwed up a lot of things in my life during that year he was gone. Even while he was gone I could do nothing but push him away because of how ashamed I was of where my life was headed. He knows how amazing he was, and he came back to stop me and turn my life around. This boy moved back to Chicago for me, left his life, his family, his friends and moved back up here to be with me. Even after everything that I did, everything I screwed up on, and the fact he knew I was still hurt by him for leaving me, he came back. He struggled through the rest of my hard times and supported me. He solely made me want to be a better person, to be a person he would be proud of, and to work hard at making our relationship stronger and healthier.

I honestly know that I would not be able to get up and go to work every day if I didn't know he was going to wake up next to me, and be home with me after work. He's my best friend and my life partner, we are the "WE" couple in a gay community of impossible love. We have made it through the struggles of gay life and have found happiness in each other in good times and in bad. Without him I wouldn't be able to stuggle though financial hardships, or apartment fiasco's. I wouldn't be able to push for a better job, or dream of the future. Hell, I couldn't even keep my apartment clean until he came along. I also have to say, I appreciate all he does for me. He does do a lot more dishes than me still, and every time he picks up that sponge I try to think of a way to make up for my lazyness.

Andy is the one person in this world I can count on, I can trust, and I can truly love unconditionally (okay save Christine whom I also love unconditionally, can trust, and count on.) He is by far the one person though in this world that I would change for to make him happy. I love you so much Andersen Ritsch!!!!