So, I've got a problem that's been bugging for...i guess a couple years now hah. There was a girl that I met about, I guess, two years ago at this point. I'd known her prior and we'd exchanged emails for a good year before ever meeting each other in person. I lived in Cecil County, MD at this point and she lived in Washington D.C. (about two and half hours of distance). So, we meet and everything was amazing. I'd say that the day and night I spent with her were definitely high on the list of happiest times for me, which is a rather small list. Being that we lived so far away though, as happy as we were with each other, nothing ever fully materialized and eventually things fell apart and we lost touch. Back in March, I got back into contact with her because I was going to be in D.C. for a Mountain Goats show at the club she used to work at. So, we met up, briefly, but it completely rekindled all those old feelings. After that, we were talking again for a long time and she ended up coming back to visit me and we had another night like that first one and talked about the fact that when we were together things felt right. I guess a precursor to that, we're both creative people similarly prone to depressive episodes but when we were together, it would seem like those things would disappear. We both agreed that this wasn't something that we had been able to experience with anyone else and that we wanted to be with each other but she had a lot of life stuff to figure out, namely that she was leaving for an art school in North Carolina in October and would be down there a couple months and couldn't commit to me and didn't think she could be the person I needed her to be. I know that sounds like a brush off, but given our experience with each other, I know that was an honest statement. And so, we kept talking but not being with each other in the physical sense. Anyway, the problem is that we've lost touch again. I've been calling her and sent her a letter, but she's just stopped responding and I have no way of reaching her. This happened kind of all of the sudden and it's sent me into some serious episodes a few times. I guess the thing that I need advice about is what I should do in this situation. Give up or not? I'm simplifying of course, but any sort of dialogue would be helpful. Thanks everybody, Max