| May. 15th, 2008 @ 02:38 pm Ten years |
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Ten years ago tonight I got to the Northshore Mall in Peabody, Massachusetts early, stopped by the KB toy store, and bought a tiny Tigger doll. I walked down the hall to Legal Sea Foods, put my name in at the desk, and stood outside to wait. I had put on some nice dress pants and a button-down shirt, so I looked OK for a Friday night after a long week, and I did my best not to look nervous. It was still early for the time we'd arranged.
Fifteen minutes later my world changed. I didn't know it at the time, of course, with little Tigger sitting on the table watching us eat fried calamari. I didn't even know it later, when her car got a flat tire while we were walking along the beach in Lynn, and the rim just wouldn't come off, and we had to walk a couple of miles to get to a convenience store with a phone, because ten years ago most people, us included, didn't have cell phones.
It didn't take me long to figure it out, though. I asked her to marry me three months later, to the day, and a year-plus-a-little after that we were married. It's been a bit of a rollercoaster ride since then, but I couldn't imagine taking that ride without her next to me.
I love you, Jen. |
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