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Happy monthly anniversary, my love. We are one month shy of 22 years, and what a year we had. Readjustments and relocations, a new country and a new language...the latter of which you are mastering in your introduction class. The time between last year and now feels stretched and distorted, as if it was bent around corners and pushed through deep water to get to now. Soon, we will be vaccinated, soon life will be back to what normal was. Soon, we can together breathe some relief. Hopefully that soon will land before our 22-year anniversary, when we can finally travel, making Europe seem more than a digital stretch of Google Maps and something more like a shared memory.