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Some 200 flights along the California coast and four years later, Matt proposed to Melissa with an elaborate, YouTube-worthy adventure through San Francisco's Ferry Building, as loved ones escorted her to where he waited on bended knee. Editor’s note: How To Have Sex won the top prize in Un Certain Regard, the second-tier competition at Cannes Film Festival L AST YEAR a female British writer-director introduced her. After a weekend visit from Matt, who lived in San Francisco, she shared her thoughts, unplugged: She sent him a snail-mail letter. And tinged with what feels like genuine shame.

Specifically, sexy, romantic, passionate, real soul-to-soul love. It wasn't until Melissa returned to her native Los Angeles, in 2007, during the pair's occasional long conversations over ramen, that she decided the timing was finally right for them to become more than buddies. A beautiful piece about letting love into our life this story is an extract from Sheri Salata’s memoir The Beautiful No: And Other Tales of Trial, Transcendence, and TransformationLove. Despite circumstance and distance-Matt was in a relationship in college Melissa moved to Japan after graduation in 2005-the two stayed in touch with the help of modern media, bonding over Facebook catchups and e-mail. Who says technology's not romantic? Not Melissa Paulo, a social media manager, or Matt Cruzada, a global apparel merchant and one of her closest friends since freshman year at the University of California at Berkeley.

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