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Anniversaries. More specifically, my parents’ anniversaries. Which keep happening on this date over and over. I’m starting to think it’s more than just a coincidence… So to my mom and dad, happy 53rd anniversary!
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Photo albums. We’ve kept them since before I was born, which is good for refreshing happy memories, remembering the odd places I fell asleep around the house and double-checking how old I was when I broke one of my arms. (It took a while to find the album that had some pictures—for the record, it was my left arm when I was 2.)
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Old furniture. One of the items I use as a bookshelf back at my parents’ house is Dad’s old school desk. He used it as a kid, so that thing is way older than me. I treat my elders with respect: I use it for books that I read for English classes back in college. “Take care of my Shakespeare anthology, desk, he’s your elder, too!”
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Family vacations. Some of those albums came from trips we’ve taken across the country, into Canada, up to Alaska, overseas… happy memories for all of us.
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Being able to wish my parents a happy anniversary. I may not live in their basement anymore, but I can still let them know (via text message this year) how grateful I am for everything they’ve done for me over the last 40+ years. Love you guys!
46 is way more than I can count on my fingers and toes
Today is my parents’ 46th anniversary. That’s a lot of time to stick together. To put it in another perspective, Britney Spears’ first marriage lasted 55 hours from ceremony to annulment. Mom and Dad’s marriage?
Over 7331 times longer.
Happy anniversary, guys.
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Happy 40th Anniversary
Today commemorates the 40th anniversary of my parents’ marriage and it was perilously close to being a non-event: if it weren’t for a little added pressure earlier this evening, the day’s only significance would have been their visiting the Rainbow Foods in Lakeville that opened today and eating samples of a wide variety of exotic foods that no one would ever buy unless they won the lottery. Or unless the grocers laced the mini-sausages with a little something special for their new customers… Continue reading “Happy 40th Anniversary”
