678 Cindy Zulla from Mariemont, Ohio, USA, sent this in via the SOTM Flickr group. She said: “I was in a long distance relationship for 9 years with the person who told me we had ‘agape love’ - a love between two people that no matter what cannot be broken. I know this to be unconditional love.

"He disappeared without explanation. The portrait was taken on my front porch, replicating a scene that I experienced with him when he showed up on ‘Christmas Eve Eve’ (years earlier) from a cancelled flight which left him in Cincinnati.

"I came home from work to find him sat there. It still makes my heart ache to think of it."