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Happy monthly anniversary, my love. Finally we are back on our feet, just in time for spring to arrive and for the cherry blossoms to light up the streets and your office's quad. It's been almost a year since we left Europe for here and in that span of time, I suffered, but you were there to listen and be kind. Thank you. I know I can be a lot, and I know you aren't there to take away all the problems. I know I can be dismissive when you help. It's only because I have had a crisis of confidence and didn't believe I was worth anything good. Now that I'm working, being creative, and in the sun, I can feel human again. And today is the fourth anniversary of enduring the worst point in my professional career. Four years later, the sting has faded. I am of the other side, of that time and of last year. I can breathe again.