Sentence 1: My girlfriend, Julia, was studying in Paris for a semester. 
 Sentence 3: It was a little stuffed hippo with a note attached 
 Sentence 4:  The note instructed Julia to snuggle the hippo whenever she felt down 
 Sentence 5:  Her response was to fly back home and ask me to marry her! 
 Option 1: After two months of being apart, I sent her a package. 
 Option 2: I couldn't handle the long distance relationship and ended things in a letter.