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To my love. Today we're apart, but we are still in touch. I'll see you in a couple of nights. Sleeping without you is a strange, unbalanced ritual I remember the echoes of it whenever I'm out of town on business, but the sinister distance of you or I being out of town alone is so infrequent you can't help but forget. 

Happy Anniversary, my love. I miss you. I love you.

190

A happy monthly anniversary to my love. I hear you in the next room, the computer playing Les Miz. I'm on the couch with Liam in a sunspot. All is calm, and I hope it always will be. I want to be the best for you. I love you.

189

I'll only be kissing you goodbye this morning, and that will be the extent of our anniversary together. Work has other plans, but we will be together soon, and with a new cat in our family. I love you, and happy anniversary, my love.

188

Happy anniversary to you, my love. Between me starting my new job, the car accident, and coming down with a cold, it's been an eventful week. At least we're happy here at home, where it's peaceful and quiet. I love you, and I love how the moment I come home and hear you, everything is better.

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Happy monthly anniversary, my love. I want to thank you for your love and support, especially last week as I prepared for and went to the Big Interview. We should know if they want me Tuesday or Wednesday.  Finding the card and the "good luck" lion as I dressed for the interview in the dark hours of Wednesday morning reassured me that, no matter what the outcome, I knew you would be proud of me. I love you.