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Stefan walked into Elena's life at a time when she needed a support, someone who could lend her a shoulder to cry on. He was the one person who understood what she was going through and helped her find herself again. With Elena, Stefan found a hope in life, a reason for his existence. He had been a wandering, incomplete soul for more than a century who finally found his pilgrimage, his other half, the other part of his soul.

What is probably the most touching about these two is how they never gave up on each other. When Stefan was going through his Ripper phase, it required guts to bring him out of the darkness which threatened to consume him, the Stefan we all love so much. He became a different person for all of us. At such a juncture, Elena was the only one who held on to the hope that HER Stefan was still in there somewhere, alive, needing to be saved. If Stefan waited a century for his soulmate, Elena too waited 18 years of her human life in search of that one person who could bring alive the girl dying bit by bit with every tragedy that struck her life. How could she give up on him when he was all she got? Elena, the human who loved Stefan beyond human capabilities, embracing every single side of him, the shades of his personality which even he himself hated.