Caleb,

You are easily the most polarizing figure of this season and I know exactly which pole I am on! I ADORE you!!

You got such a hard time from so many people, myself included but when we finally got to talk and you told me your story I fell in love. You are such an outstanding person and you are an inspiration to me. I am so very proud of you for overcoming everything you have had to overcome and now look at you, Mr. President! ;)

You will always have a special place in my heart when I think of this game. You are one of the 4 people with whom I made a very strong genuine personal connection and I can't wait to see you again when this is over.

MUCH LOVE, babe! :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:

I didn't have a very good impression of Caleb before I met him. I had barely talked to him, but everyone said that he was super aggressive toward the other players, and that if you did anything that he didn't like, he would let you have it. While all that may have been true, I discovered a different side to him...a side that I'm not sure a lot of the other players got to see when I was finally able to get on a tribe with him, and get to know him.
For starters, he accepted me instantly into his tribe, and began trying to get to know me and set up a partnership right away. I don't know if what he was saying to me was sincere, but it certainly felt that way. He may have been saying the same things to all of the other players, I'm not sure...but it wasn't difficult to convince myself that he really was as fantastic as I thought. During our conversations, I would forget that we were playing a game where we would have to compete. That is a gift. He put me totally at ease, and had me believing that he wanted to go deep into the game with me.
I did not want to vote him out in the end, and I actually really do regret having to do it. There were a few trust issues, but overall my decision to vote for him was really an attempt to strategically further myself. If he took my vote hard, I do feel bad about it.
Looking outside of the game, I really feel like Caleb and I connected. He is a fantastic conversationalist, and when I spoke to him I felt like I was talking to one of my really good friends. He was a polarizing figure for a lot of the other players, but I think that I was left out of a lot of that. Caleb played this game with his heart. He's one of the players that I'm most happy to have met.

:)

Caleb! I love and miss you so much. Your exit has quieted down the game so much and I feel like it changed the rest of my game. You were my closest ally in the game and we helped each other get through so many obstacles. We've had our highs and we've had our lows and despite all of that I knew we would always reconnect. If anything I know I made a very good, very genuine friend!

You're the only person i feel bad about voting off, hopefully you got over it. If not oh well. When you weren't talking about the game, i thought you were a great person, I just don't think we are compatible in survivor. You drove me crazy.