Nine years ago I had no idea how completely happy I would be in marriage. I've been blessed more in these years than any other. Thank you, Emily, for being my wife.
Thanks, Ma and Dad, for the nice comments (in Emily’s post). I remember, growing up, having my parents tell me that "you don't only marry your wife. You marry her whole family." How true that is. Thanks for helping Emily become the woman she is. I can't thank you enough.
And thanks to my own Mom and Dad. (Paraphrasing what I heard someone else say) I have experienced 32 years of happy marriage. 23 as a child in the home of my parents, and nine as a husband and father. What more could one hope for?
Emily, when we met eleven years ago we were very young. There is no way we could have known what we really wanted in a spouse. I feel that God blessed me to find you, (and to have the sense to make you mine.)
The Great Advantage Of Being Alive
e.e. cummings
the great advantage of being alive
(instead of undying)is not so much
that mind no more can disprove than prove
what heart may feel and soul may touch
—the great(my darling)happens to be
that love are in we,that love are in we
and here is a secret they never will share
for whom create is less than have
or one times one than when times where—
that we are in love,that we are in love:
with us they've nothing times nothing to do
(for love are in we am in i are in you)
this world (as timorous itsters all
to call their cowardice quite agree)
shall never discover our touch and feel
—for love are in we are in love are in we;
for you are and i am and we are(above
and under all possible worlds)in love
a billion brains may coax undeath
from fancied fact and spaceful time—
no heart can leap,no soul can breathe
but by the sizeless truth of a dream
whose sleep is the sky and the earth and the sea.
For love are in you am in i are in we
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