Strolling down Anniversary Memory Lane

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“Sometimes someone comes into your life, so unexpectedly, takes your heart by surprise, and changes your life forever.” -Anonymous My husband and I celebrated an anniversary yesterday. We have been together now almost our whole lives. When we met at a high school football game years and years ago, I was fourteen and he was eighteen. I was a freshman. …

Chalking Up Another Anniversary

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A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney We celebrated our anniversary  today by going to church and then to a fast food restaurant for some burgers and ice cream. Big time celebrators, right? But we had just come from from St. Louis where I got to …

Threads of Happiness

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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~Simone Signoret My husband and I just made it through another year together and celebrated an anniversary this weekend. Oh, the memories that an anniversary can bring to mind. We were very young when we met. Darrell was a …

A Celebration of Love

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A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney Happy anniversary to my husband and to me. We’re celebrating many years together today. We’ve had a way of celebrating in some different ways some years and typical ways other years. So far we haven’t gone on cruises …

First Love at Any Age

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Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love. (Eric Kandel) It’s been great reading some of your memories of first loves. Some of the stories focus around those very early elementary school romances. Some are of the much more serious types – first …

A Lifetime Commitment

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 A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney My husband and I celebrated our anniversary yesterday. In rather laid back ways. No big trips or dinners. We went to Louisville to walk in the St. Jude Give Thanks. Walk. That was to support St. Jude Hospital …

Famous Quotes on Fame

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I’m a day late today. Yesterday was my anniversary. Darrell and I have been married umpteen years. I remember noting the anniversary where I’d been married half my life and then the one two-thirds. Now I’m heading toward the three-fourths but that’s still a ways down the road. It’s hard to realize so many years have gone by since we …