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Happy monthly anniversary. A quick marker for another month. I'm racing to update design documents, taking on the role of a director and a writer for the upcoming game story arc. Everything is an anxious blur, but I cannot forget this day, this part of the month with meaning. The weather has turned into spring, mild and warm at long last. I hope the light makes you happy. I hope the sight of the sea, blue and infinite, out the east window, gives you a sense of solace. I hope you know you are loved. 

In two months, it will be 22 years. By then, maybe we will have our vaccines. Maybe the world will be more open to us. Maybe life will be less dormant. A true spring for us and our lives. 

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To my love. Spring is finally here. The lockdown is getting closer to ending, although we don't have a firm date or even a clue when we will get vaccines. We keep moving forward. We keep trying. The increasing sun helps. The sense that the darkness and cold helps. There is something else coming, something better. I hope, no matter what, that you know you are loved. I hope you will be happy in the coming months. I hope I have been kind and loving to you. 

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It's late winter in Denmark. The snow is melted, leaving behind little lakes and ponds everywhere. Today, our monthly anniversary, the sun is out and we are slowly coming out of the dark of the season. It helps us endure another month of lockdown. I know this is not the vision of living in Europe that you had. I hope soon it will be better. I hope for better months to come. I hope you are happy, and that you know that I love you.

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To my love. We remain in lockdown again. One day we will be allowed outside again and have some freedom. We will endure and we will do our best to be humane and grateful. I hope you are happy now and I hope you will be happy when this current time of plague is over. And as usual, I hope I am kind to you. Always. It is what you deserve. 

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To my love. We are halfway through the dark of a Scandinavian winter and approaching the end of a fricative year for us, for everyone. I know you miss your family. I know you miss what was our home. I know you are enduring. I wish it all could be better, but we need to get through this. I believe we will. But like the year has been for a lot of us, this time is going to change us. I hope you know you are loved. I hope you know you don't have to endure this alone. I love you, and out of all the things, I want you to know that.