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A holding pattern on our monthly anniversary as we wait in our growing-bare apartment. Soon, but still unknown when, I’ll get my visa and we can go to Germany. Thank you for being reassuring as we sit in the uncertainty. I know we have time to get from here to there before my new start date. It will all work out. 

I love you. Happy monthly anniversary. 

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Another month, a waning month, in Denmark. We wait for the paperwork to clear. We have a destination waiting for us in Germany. We are paring down. We are preparing, pruning, packing, plodding. We want to go; we have to wait. At least we wait in peace, in quiet, and in Scandinavian sunshine. There are worse fates. 

For now, we have a quiet monthly anniversary in the Danish sun. I hope you are happy. I hope you are enjoying your life with me. I love you.

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23 years. Happy anniversary, my love. For today, we agreed no gifts. Nothing we would have to drag with us when we leave for Germany. So, we visit places we always wanted to go to but never had the time before, thanks to COVID. 

But now we have our passports and an apartment to arrive at. Now we have to disengage ourselves from here. It'll be like relocating to Amsterdam all over again, into the mouth of a major European city and a plague we didn't see coming. Everything should be smoother this time.

Thank you for all your love and kindness in these past months. It hasn't been easy, but the rest is paperwork and credit card usage. Today, we enjoy our victories. 

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We await the bureaucracy to click into place so we can relocate to another country. We await the signal to start our future. We hurry up and wait. At least we can do it together. At least we know things are in motion. This is merely a delay. If all goes well this is our second-to-last monthly anniversary here before we say goodbye to Denmark and start another adventure together.

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Happy monthly anniversary, my love.

So much happening as we recover from spring sickness. We returned from Iceland on a birthday trip and now we look forward to the bureaucratic and logistical leaps into our next big thing. Another country, another job, another new city. I know we can do this. We have done it before. Now is just the paperwork. 

A calm before the storm.