I like the idea of a modest bouquet of flowers with a friendly message. I am kind of dubious about the "distance killed it" thing though. When I met my late husband, he was a cadet in the merchant navy and I was at college away from where he (and I) lived. It was the late 60's and there was no internet...no texting...no mobile phones, skype, facetime and so on letters were few and far between because you can't post stuff off a ship and ship to shore phone calls were prohibitively expensive and hard to arrange. We married in 74 and had nearly 40 happy years together....so maybe not blame the distance? maybe its time for you to move on?