4 Years Ago Today

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...I married the most wonderful woman in the world. We met at a church dance, and while pick-up lines are typically frowned upon, I managed a meager one that made my future wife laugh. I'm not the type of man to use a pick-up line but this was apparently a special occasion. A few wry comments and an exchange of phone numbers later and we had officially begun the dance of love so common to the human race. The only problem is that in this case that dance was called, "just friends." I was convinced after the first date and all she did was complain about the "guys in Dallas," and that "they're all so weird." Being a guy in Dallas, I mistakenly associated myself with this group and assumed I had found a friend who laughed at my jokes, rather than a wife and mother of my children. There was one little problem.

Heather was and is absolutely beautiful. It's difficult to have a beautiful friend, especially a beautiful friend who laughs at your jokes. The problem is compounded, because each time she laughed my heart would skip a beat; each beat it skipped let her creep in a little more, and I found myself loving my friend. I used my indomitable skills of coercion and hilarity, and convinced her through mirth that I did in fact have two eyebrows. Since this alleviated her concerns about my humanity, she asked me out. 6 months later I bought a ring and 144 roses then led her to the place where we first met and asked her to be my wife. She determined the ring was acceptable and said yes. We were married on 8 June 2002. This was the single greatest act of my life.
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She is not only a wife, but a mother now. And while she has grown tired of wry comments, I can still make her laugh. And every time she laughs, my heart skips a beat.

I Love You Heather, Happy Anniversary.

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