First issue: my letter to my birth mother. It is finally complete. I just need to print off some pictures to send with it. It is quite lengthy. It is 3 pages of my rose stationary. I had to edit it several times to get it down to just 3 pages. I figure, the first letter should be factual. I told her the highlights of my life and gave her a little peek at my personality. I hope as she and my birth sisters read the letter they laugh and smile as they realize I am just like them! I hope. So often it happens that way with birth families. I told her about my schooling and of course, about my engagement. It is difficult trying to write to her in a way that she'll understand. Korea is so different from America. Obviously, someone will translate the letter before she reads it, but I want it to be pretty much the exact same as my original writing. I cannot wait for her reply letter. I asked for us to keep writing letters until we can meet. Since I was about 11 I always thought I wanted to take a trip to Korea with my parents for my 21st birthday and meet my birth family. Well, I didn't take into account that I would be graduating college and getting married all in the same summer. Perhaps for my 23rd birthday we can make the trip. That way Matt and I will have had enough time to save up money for both of our trips and we hopefully won't be pregnant yet. We shall see. I am excited to get to know my birth mother and sisters more through their letters and I really hope they send some pictures with the next letter. I hope my birth mother has pictures of her and my birth father, who died in a car accident before I was born. It makes me sad. My birth mother said that since she gave me up her and my sisters have become Christians, which is a HUGE PRAISE. But that implies that they were not before, and that my birth father was not a believer. That makes me sad. But the fact that my living birth family are my sisters in Christ now is better than I ever could have hoped for!

Issue Dos: A little movie review. Since it is in the Dollar Theatre here in Lynchburg, I figure a lot of people have already seen the movie or have heard about it. But I'll still review it anyways. My friends and I went to see "Becoming Jane" today. Ugh~ my favorite Austen story yet. Most of the other girls didn't care too much for it because it didn't have a happy ending. Those stories are typically my favorite because that's how it really happens in real life. There aren't many movies out there like that. It was sad though. I grew to love Mr. Lefroy more than Mr. Darcy, or Mr. Knightley, or Mr. Ferrars. And that made it ever so much harder to accept the reality that was Miss Austen's life. It hardly seems fair that brilliant Elizabeth or cunning Emma or practical Elinor all end up with the men of their dreams. And the men that all the rest of us have fallen in love with both on paper and on screen. Poor Jane was left alone. Poor Jane was left broken hearted. Poor Jane was left to contemplate whether it truly is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. Jane Austen penned the greatest chick flicks known to this day. She knew what women wanted. She developed marvelously charming characters women would lust after and seek. She had the greatest story of them all. She had the perfect man lacking nothing but the fortune to make their lives together possible. Oh to have Tom Lefroy. Yet it was not to be. Instead, she would re-create her story. She would pen into the mind his perfections. She would elaborate on the struggles on the day in finding the hearts true home. She would share her deepest dreams and imaginings of what could have been for the rest of the world. Poor Jane. I thank her for it. And I admire her strength. We all want a Fitzwilliam Darcy, a John Knightley, an Edward Ferrars, and mostly a Tom Lefroy... but Jane Austen showed us that life can be something different. She made something of herself. She did what was unthinkable in that days society. She became something. And we all love her for it. What would we do without her stories? I highly recommend "Becoming Jane". Seeing a different side of the author we all have come to love makes one enjoy and appreciate her stories so much more. Thank you, Jane.

Yes, I know. A little bit much. But I really loved the movie. It made me sad, in a happy way.

Time for bed. A little too late for me.