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To my wife, a happy monthly anniversary. This time around we are joined by your parents, who managed to get their vaccinations and be well enough and COVID free enough to travel through Europe and work their way to see us after stopping in our old city of Amsterdam. Being home, you'll spend more time with them, which is fair. Perhaps needed. You haven't seen them for a couple years, part of the wide gulf enforced on millions around the world where we couldn't travel in 2020...and even if we did, we wouldn't want to. We were isolating to save each other...hiding out of love, giving each other signs of life via livestreaming from tablets on birthdays, holidays, when the distance got too much to bear. 

I hope their visit nourishes you and sustains you. It's a needed gift.